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Kennedy, Liam and Shapiro, Stephen, eds. (2019) Neoliberalism and contemporary American literature. Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies . Hanover: New Hampshire Dartmouth College Press . ISBN 9781512603613
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Abstract
How has American literature responded to the dominance of neoliberalism?
Does it make sense to speak of an “American” literature in neoliberal times? Can literature function as either a neutral category or a privileged narrative of national imagination in a time when paradigms of the nation-state and of liberal capitalism are undergoing a prolonged shift? In the United States, as elsewhere, the association between the nation-state, liberal capitalism, and literary form has a long history, reflecting determinate relations between writer and reader within an imagined national community. As this community loses its symbolic efficiency in the age of neoliberal capital, the boundaries and possibilities of literary production and representation shift.
This collection of essays examines how American literature both models and interrogates the neoliberal present. Has literary realism been exhausted as a narrative form? Can contemporary literature still imagine either the end of capitalism or an alternative to it?
Item Type: | Book | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Series Name: | Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | New Hampshire Dartmouth College Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Hanover | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781512603613 | ||||||
Editor: | Kennedy, Liam and Shapiro, Stephen | ||||||
Official Date: | 3 September 2019 | ||||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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