Allegories of Neoliberalism

Contemporary South Asian Fictions, Capital, and Utopia
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-34984-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism’s “forms of appearance.”

This book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay, and other writers from South Asia and South Asian diaspora.

It also advances a re-reading of Karl Marx’s Capital through the themes and tropes of literature—one that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spatial relationship, financialization, and ecological devastation through the lens of the German revolutionary’s critique of capitalism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zayed, Sarker Hasan Al

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Allegorizing Neoliberalism

2. "Kanna" and the Monetization of Affect

3. The White Tiger and the Subsumption of the Rural

4. Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the "Empire of Finance"

5. Conclusion: In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

Über Autor(innen)

Sarker Hasan Al Zayed is Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) where he teaches literature and cultural studies. He is the translator of Ian Almond’s The Thought of Nirad C Choudhury: Islam, Empire and Loss. His essays have appeared in South Asian Review, Crossings, Harvest, and other academic journals and anthologies.