The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature
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The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature

A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature

A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis

About this book

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary novels, as well as various non-fictional texts, it traces the changing approaches to empathy in the post-financial-crisis imagination, highlighting a crucial re-conceptualization of empathy as a boundaryless force, untethered to local or social circumstance. This reconceptualization implicitly aligns empathy with the neoliberal ethos of globalism and distances it from the traditional notion of "sympathy." Via complex dialogue with the novelistic tradition of sympathy, contemporary novelists highlight the problematics of boundaryless empathy, while exploring ways to resist neoliberal views and values. Analyzing engagements with empathy in post-2008 literature and culture, the book sheds light on the underlying affective dynamics that enabled the persistence of neoliberalism after the 2008 financial crisis, alongside efforts to challenge its dominance.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032752129
eBook ISBN
9781040107348
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Finance
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Neoliberalism and its Discontents: The Centrality of Empathy in Post-2008 Financial-Crisis Culture
  9. 1 Empathy in the Courtroom: The 2009 Criminal Case of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin
  10. 2 Literary Empathy, Embodied Relationality, and the Critique of Neoliberalism: Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go in Dialogue with Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections
  11. 3 Unsettling the Promises of Empathy: Zadie Smith’s NW
  12. 4 “I Have Made a Study of You”: Psychopathic Empathy and Surveillance Capitalism in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
  13. 5 Apathy, Empathy, and the Possibility of Social Change: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
  14. Conclusion
  15. Index