The Crisis of Capitalism in the Contemporary Novel
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2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9226-5 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9226-5 (ISBN)
Explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors who share interests in the politics of the left, the problems of protracted economic crisis, and the potentiality of post-capitalist ideas.
This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson. All of them share interests in the politics of the left, the problems of protracted economic crisis, and the potentiality of post-capitalist ideas. Novels by these authors, this book argues, are defined by an imperative to confront current anxieties in left-thought, while, at the same time, evincing a nuanced degree of self-consciousness about the legacy of political radicalisms, the costs they accrue, and where they have led.
This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson. All of them share interests in the politics of the left, the problems of protracted economic crisis, and the potentiality of post-capitalist ideas. Novels by these authors, this book argues, are defined by an imperative to confront current anxieties in left-thought, while, at the same time, evincing a nuanced degree of self-consciousness about the legacy of political radicalisms, the costs they accrue, and where they have led.
Andrew Rowcroft is an associate lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln in England.
Table of Contents
Abstract
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. A Search for Method
2. Reading the New Ruins: Mourning, Melancholy, and Loss in Dissident Gardens and Eat the Document
3. The Return of the Spectre: Gothic Marxism in The City & The City
4. From Reel to Real: Forming Radicalism in The Flamethrowers
5. Dying to Buy: Evicted, Apartment, and Generation Rent
6. Fictions of Financial Crisis: Pynchon, Marx, Neoliberalism
7. Growing Up, Growing Old, in Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn
8. Capital, Liquidity, and Revolution in New York: 2140
Epilogue
Appendix
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.02.2024 |
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Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 272 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-9226-2 / 1476692262 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-9226-5 / 9781476692265 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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