Crisis of Capitalism in the Contemporary Novel

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

842 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:277 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:205
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476692265

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Andrew Rowcroft is an associate lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln in England.

Recensioner i media

“Drawing on and extending Jameson’s critical practice, the author pays careful attention to the ways that contemporary writers formally register the crises and promises of left-wing politics”—Stephen Schryer, author of Maximum Feasible Participation: American Literature and the War on Poverty

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAbstractAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Search for Method2. Reading the New Ruins: Mourning, Melancholy, and Loss in Dissident Gardens and Eat the Document3. The Return of the Spectre: Gothic Marxism in The City & The City4. From Reel to Real: Forming Radicalism in The Flamethrowers5. Dying to Buy: Evicted, Apartment, and Generation Rent6. Fictions of Financial Crisis: Pynchon, Marx, Neoliberalism7. Growing Up, Growing Old, in Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn8. Capital, Liquidity, and Revolution in New York: 2140EpilogueAppendixChapter NotesBibliographyIndex