Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism

Michael K. Walonen is Assistant Professor of English at Bethune-Cookman University, USA. He specializes in transatlantic modern and contemporary cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature. He is the author of the book Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature and articles that have appeared in the journals Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, Studies in Travel Writing, African Literature and Culture, and Frontiers: The International Journal of Study Abroad, as well as the collections Geocritical Explorations and On and Off the Page: Mapping in Text and Culture.

Acknowledgments.- 1. Introduction.- PART I: BROAD TRENDS.- 2. Contemporary North American Narrative Fiction and the Landscapes of Neoliberalism: The Explosion of Corporate Capitalism and the Spaces of the Fallen American Middle Class.- 3. Speculation, Social Conflict,  and the Ethics of Untrammeled Accumulation in the American Neoliberal Financier Novel.- 4. Spatial Division, Bricolage Settlement, and Informal Economies in the Developing World Slum Novel.- PART II: CASES IN POINT.- 5. Psycho-Geographic Orientation in the Neoliberal City: Establishing and Contesting Place Identity in the Nascent Literature of Dubai.- 6. Sense of Place, Consumer Capitalism, and the Sexual Politics of Global Nomadism in the Popular Fiction of Dubai.- 7. The Spatial/Political-Economic Dynamics of the Theme Park in Contemporary Transatlantic Fiction.- 8. Conclusion: Humanistic Study in a Time of Nightmare Economics.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-