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World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent

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Editors:
  1. Sharae Deckard

    1. Dublin, Republic of Ireland

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  2. Stephen Shapiro

    1. Coventry, UK

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  • Winner of the 2019 British Association for Contemporary Literature Edited Collection Prize
  • Brings together perspectives from different fields (hemispheric American and Latin American studies, world literature, postcolonial studies, environmental humanities)
  • Furthers the emerging field of world-systems and world-ecology by deepening its theoretical frameworks and developing new methodologies

Part of the book series: New Comparisons in World Literature (NCWL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. World-Culture and the Neoliberal World-System: An Introduction

    • Sharae Deckard, Stephen Shapiro
    Pages 1-48

  3. The Long 1970s: Neoliberalism, Narrative Form, and Hegemonic Crisis in the Work of Marlon James and Paulo Lins

    • Michael Niblett
    Pages 49-68

  4. From “Section 936” to “Junk”: Neoliberalism, Ecology, and Puerto Rican Literature

    • Kerstin Oloff
    Pages 69-91

  5. Mont Neoliberal Periodization: The Mexican “Democratic Transition,” from Austrian Libertarianism to the “War on Drugs”

    • Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
    Pages 93-110

  6. Cricket’s Neoliberal Narratives: Or the World of Competitive Accumulation and Sporting Spirit in Contemporary Cricket Fiction

    • Claire Westall
    Pages 111-130

  7. Keeping It Real: Literary Impersonality Under Neoliberalism

    • Daniel Hartley
    Pages 131-155

  8. The Cultural Regulation of Neoliberal Capitalism

    • Mathias Nilges
    Pages 157-174

  9. Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite: Monetized War, Militarized Money—A Narrative Poetics for the Closing of an American Century

    • Richard Godden
    Pages 175-194

  10. 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
    Pages 195-213

  11. Futures, Inc.: Fiction and Intellectual Property in the (South) African Renaissance

    • Matthew Eatough
    Pages 215-237

  12. Trains, Stone, and Energetics: African Resource Culture and the Neoliberal World-Ecology

    • Sharae Deckard
    Pages 239-262

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 263-269
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About this book

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 and to distinguish between neoliberal ideology and processes of neoliberalization. It explores the ways in which cultural studies can teach us about aspects of neoliberalism that economics and political journalism cannot or have not: the particular affects, subjectivities, bodily dispositions, socio-ecological relations, genres, forms of understanding, and modes of political resistance that register neoliberalism. Using a world-systems perspective for cultural studies, the essays in this collection examine cultural productions from across the neoliberal world-system, bringing together works that might have in the past been separated into postcolonial studies and Anglo-American Studies.

Reviews

“Readers primarily trained in literary studies will find the chapters accessible, with many focusing on how elements of narrative … reify or intimate a resistance to the excesses of neo-liberalism. … the book’s nuanced commentaries on the ever-pernicious effects of capital, in an age where culture itself reproduces the inequalities of capital accumulation, reveals the limitations of locating literary studies solely within the realm of cultural production.” (Ann Ang, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, November 1, 2020)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dublin, Republic of Ireland

    Sharae Deckard

  • Coventry, UK

    Stephen Shapiro

About the editors

Sharae Deckard is Lecturer in World Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her recent publications include Marxism, Postcolonial Studies and the Future of Critique (co-edited with Rashmi Varma); Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization; and special issues of Ariel and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing on world literature.


Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His most recent publications include Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles and World-Systems Culture and Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature (co-edited with Liam Kennedy).

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