Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction

Literature Beyond Fordism

Roberto del Valle Alcalá

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781000750898
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Feminist Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Post-Fordism and Crisis
• 2 Subjects of Abstraction
• 3 The Crisis and the City
• 4 Servile Becomings
• 5 The Reproductive Imagination
• 6 The Politics of Division
• Index