Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction

Literature Beyond Fordism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-42649-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 158 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valle Alcala, Roberto del

Valle Alcalá, Roberto del

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Post-Fordism and Crisis
Chapter 2: Subjects of Abstraction
Chapter 3: The Crisis and the City
Chapter 4: Servile Becomings
Chapter 5: The Reproductive Imagination
Chapter 6: The Politics of Division

Über Autor(innen)

Roberto del Valle Alcalá Associate Professor in English Literature at Södertörn University.