Reading Capitalist Realism

Reading Capitalist Realism

by Shonkwiler, Alison

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As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalization, neoliberalism, and financialization, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands upon literature, art, and mass media to develop strategies of representation that can account for capitalism's power. Reading Capitalist Realism presents some of the latest and most sophisticated …

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As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalization, neoliberalism, and financialization, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands upon literature, art, and mass media to develop strategies of representation that can account for capitalism's power. Reading Capitalist Realism presents some of the latest and most sophisticated approaches to the question of the relation between capitalism and narrative form,

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014

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  • Description:1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781609382636, 1609382633, 160938234X, 9781609382346
  • oclc:ocn875819800
  • LC Classification:HB501
  • Dewey Decimal:330.122

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Theory of Capitalist Realism -- Alison Shonkwiler and Leigh Claire La Berge; We Can't Afford to Be Realists: A Conversation -- Jodi Dean and Mark Fisher; Part I. Novelistic Realisms; Adultery, Crisis, Contract -- Andrew Hoberek; Things Break Apart: James Kelman, Ali Smith, and the Neoliberal Novel -- Alissa G. Karl; Things As They Were or Are: On Russell Banks's Global Realisms -- Phillip E. Wegner; Part II. Genres of Mediation; Capitalist Realism and Serial Form: The Fifth Season of The Wire -- Leigh Claire La Berge.

Like Some Dummy Corporation You Just Move around the Board: Contemporary Hollywood Production in Virtual Time and Space -- J.D. ConnorAnti-Capitalism and Anti-Realism in William T. Vollmann's Poor People -- Caren Irr; Part III. After and Against Representation; Beyond Realism -- Michael W. Clune; Capitalism and Reification: The Logic of the Instance -- Timothy Bewes; Communist Realism -- Joshua Clover; Afterword: Unreal Criticism -- Richard Dienst; Contributors; Index.

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Subjects

Amerikanisches Englisch BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference Capitalism Capitalism -- History -- 20th century History Kapitalismus LITERARY CRITICISM -- American Literatur Realismus

Writers

Shonkwiler, Alison La Berge, Leigh Claire

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