The Crisis of Capitalism in the Contemporary Novel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowcroft, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism and literature.

Capitalism in literature.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

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.--page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Cover

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. A Search for Method

2. Reading the New Ruins

3. The Return of the Spectre

4. From Reel to Real

5. Dying to Buy

6. Fictions of Financial Crisis

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.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Rowcroft, Andrew The Crisis of Capitalism in the Contemporary Novel

ISBN:

1-4766-5217-1