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Reading Capitalist Realism

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As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalisation, neoliberalism, and financialisation, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands upon literature, art, and mass media to develop strategies of representation that can account for capitalisms power.

Reading Capitalist Realism presents some of the latest and most sophisticated approaches to the question of the relation between capitalism and narrative form, partly by questioning how the realism of austerity, privatisation, and wealth protection relate to the realism of narrative and cultural production. Even as critics have sought to locate a new aesthetic mode that might consider and move beyond theorisations of the postmodern, this volume contends that narrative realism demands renewed scrutiny for its ability to represent capitalisms latest scenes of enclosure and indebtedness.

Ranging across fiction, nonfiction, television, and film, the essays collected here explore to what extent realism is equipped to comprehend and historicise our contemporary economic moment and what might be the influence or complicity of the literary in shaping the global politics of lowered expectations. Including essays on writers such as Mohsin Hamid, Lorrie Moore, Jess Walter, J. M. Coetzee, James Kelman, Ali Smith, Russell Banks, William Vollmann, and William Gibson, as well as examinations of Hollywood film productions and The Wire television series, Reading Capitalist Realism calls attention to a resurgence of realisms across narrative genres and questions realisms ability to interrogate the crisis-driven logic of political and economic common sense. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: University of Iowa Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781609382346

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Alison Shonkwiler is an assistant professor of English at Rhode Island College. She has published articles in Contemporary Literature Studies in the Novel and GLQ. She lives in Providence Rhode Island.Leigh Claire La Berge is an assistant professor of English at Saint Marys University. She has published essays on American Psycho Slavoj iek The Financier and the aesthetics of debt.

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