Overview
Explores how novelists have responded to the changes in the contemporary work economy
Argues that the growth of flexible labour has produced narratives of nostalgia, generational contest and feelings of insecurity across a range of national contexts
Unites a wealth of literary perspectives, from critical theorists to American, British and Indian novelists
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- worker isolation in literature
- Generation X
- Microserfs
- JPod
- Douglas Coupland
- Maurizio Lazzarato
- Franco Berardi
- literary critique of neoliberalism
- worker uncertainty in literature
- Judith Butler
- Walter Kirn
- David Foster Wallace
- work theory
- labor theory
- Arivand Adiga
- Chetan Bhagat
- Monica Ali
- worker culture
- workforce globalization
- transnational literature
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Book Title: Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
Authors: Liam Connell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63928-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63927-7Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87674-0Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63928-4Published: 13 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 246
Topics: Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature