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

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Post-Fordism and CrisisChapter 2: Subjects of AbstractionChapter 3: The Crisis and the CityChapter 4: Servile BecomingsChapter 5: The Reproductive ImaginationChapter 6: The Politics of Division

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto del Valle Alcalá, Roberto Del Valle Alcala, Roberto del Valle Alcalá
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781032240015
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224001-5
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism