World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Deckard, Sharae (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shapiro, Stephen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Comparisons in World Literature
• Subjects: Literature .; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are experienced in Europe and America. This collection seeks to restore globalized capitalism as the primary object of critique...

Table of Contents:

• 1. World-Culture and the Neoliberal World-System: An Introduction; Sharae Deckard and Stephen Shapiro
• 2. The Long 1970s: Neoliberalism, Narrative Form, and Hegemonic Crisis in the work of Marlon James and Paulo Lins; Michael Niblett
• 3. From "Section 936" to "Junk": Neoliberalism, Ecology and Puerto Rican Literature; Kerstin Oloff
• 4. Mont Neoliberal Periodization: The Mexican "Democratic Transition," from Austrian Libertarianism to the "War on Drugs"; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
• 5. Cricket's Neoliberal Narratives: Or the World of Competitive Accumulation and Sporting Spirit in Contemporary Cricket Fiction; Claire Westall
• 6. Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism; Daniel Hartley
• 7. The Cultural Regulation of Neoliberal Capitalism; Mathias Nilges
• 8. Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite: Monetised War, Militarised Money-a Narrative Poetics for the Closing of an American Century; Richard Godden
• 9. A Bubble in the Vein: Suicide, Community and the Rejection of Neoliberalism in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life and Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows; Amy Rushton
• 10. Futures, Inc.: Fiction and Intellectual Property in the (South) African Renaissance; Matthew Eatough
• 11. Trains, Stone and Energetics: African Resource Culture and the Neoliberal World-Ecology; Sharae Deckard.