World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent

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.

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

Auteur
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).

Contenu

1. World-Culture and the Neoliberal World-System: An Introduction; Sharae Deckard and Stephen Shapiro.- 2. The Long 1970s: Neoliberalism, Narrative Form, and Hegemonic Crisis in the work of Marlon James and Paulo Lins; Michael Niblett.- 3. From Section 936 to Junk: Neoliberalism, Ecology and Puerto Rican Literature; Kerstin Oloff.- 4. Mont Neoliberal Periodization: The Mexican Democratic Transition, from Austrian Libertarianism to the War on Drugs; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.- 5. Cricket's Neoliberal Narratives: Or the World of Competitive Accumulation and Sporting Spirit in Contemporary Cricket Fiction; Claire Westall.- 6. Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism; Daniel Hartley.- 7. The Cultural Regulation of Neoliberal Capitalism; Mathias Nilges.- 8. Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite : Monetised War, Militarised Moneya Narrative Poetics for the Closing of an American Century; Richard Godden.- 9. 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.- 10. Futures, Inc.: Fiction and Intellectual Property in the (South) African Renaissance; Matthew Eatough.- 11. Trains, Stone and Energetics: African Resource Culture and the Neoliberal World-Ecology; Sharae Deckard.