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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature
Please Does it make sense to speak of an “American” literature in neoliberal times? Can literature function as either a neutral category or a privileged narrative of national imagination in a time when paradigms of the nation-state and of liberal capitalism are undergoing a prolonged shift? In the United States, as elsewhere, the association between the nation-state, liberal capitalism, and literary form has a long history, reflecting determinate relations between writer and reader within an imagined national community. As this community loses its symbolic efficiency in the age of neoliberal capital, the boundaries and possibilities of literary production and representation shift. This collection of essays examines how American literature both models and interrogates the neoliberal present. Has literary realism been exhausted as a narrative form? Can contemporary literature still imagine either the end of capitalism or an alternative to it?fill in marketing copy
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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature
Please Does it make sense to speak of an “American” literature in neoliberal times? Can literature function as either a neutral category or a privileged narrative of national imagination in a time when paradigms of the nation-state and of liberal capitalism are undergoing a prolonged shift? In the United States, as elsewhere, the association between the nation-state, liberal capitalism, and literary form has a long history, reflecting determinate relations between writer and reader within an imagined national community. As this community loses its symbolic efficiency in the age of neoliberal capital, the boundaries and possibilities of literary production and representation shift. This collection of essays examines how American literature both models and interrogates the neoliberal present. Has literary realism been exhausted as a narrative form? Can contemporary literature still imagine either the end of capitalism or an alternative to it?fill in marketing copy
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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature
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Please Does it make sense to speak of an “American” literature in neoliberal times? Can literature function as either a neutral category or a privileged narrative of national imagination in a time when paradigms of the nation-state and of liberal capitalism are undergoing a prolonged shift? In the United States, as elsewhere, the association between the nation-state, liberal capitalism, and literary form has a long history, reflecting determinate relations between writer and reader within an imagined national community. As this community loses its symbolic efficiency in the age of neoliberal capital, the boundaries and possibilities of literary production and representation shift. This collection of essays examines how American literature both models and interrogates the neoliberal present. Has literary realism been exhausted as a narrative form? Can contemporary literature still imagine either the end of capitalism or an alternative to it?fill in marketing copy

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781512603620
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Publication date: 03/01/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 252
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Liam Kennedy is professor of American studies and director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. Stephen Shapiro is professor of English at University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Literature, Theory, and the Temporalities of Neoliberalism 3. Foucault, Neoliberalism, Algorithmic Governmentality, and the Loss of Liberal Culture 4. The Flamethrowers and the Making of Modern Art 5. “On the Very Edge of Fiction”: Risk, Representation, and the Subject of Contemporary Fiction in Ben Lerner’s 10:04 6. Fictions of Human Capital; Or, Redemption in Neoliberal Times 7. The Uncanny Re-Worlding of the Post-9/11 American Novel, Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland; Or, The Cultural Fantasy Work of Neoliberalism 8. Desert Stories: Liberal Anxieties and the Neoliberal Novel 9. Beyond Precarity: Ideologies of Labor in Anti-Trafficking Crime Fiction 10. “Terminal Insomnia”: Sleeplessness, Labor, and Neoliberal Ecology in Karen Russell’s Sleep Donation and Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer 11. Postcapitalism in Space: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Utopian Science Fiction Contributor Biographies Index������������
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