The Crisis of Capitalism in the Contemporary Novel

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.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1.¿A Search for Method

2.¿Reading the New Ruins: Mourning, Melancholy, and Loss in Dissident Gardens and Eat the Document

3.¿The Return of the Spectre: Gothic Marxism in The City & The City

4.¿From Reel to Real: Forming Radicalism in The Flamethrowers

5.¿Dying to Buy: Evicted, Apartment, and Generation Rent

6.¿Fictions of Financial Crisis: Pynchon, Marx, Neoliberalism

7.¿Growing Up, Growing Old, in Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn

8.¿Capital, Liquidity, and Revolution in New York: 2140

Epilogue

Appendix

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Rowcroft
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2024
• EAN: 9781476692265
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-9226-5
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Capitalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, Economic systems & structures, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Consumerism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, radical; politics; capitalist