Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism

by Roberto del Valle Alcalá

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000750898
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	636 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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