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03339aam a2200421 i 4500 001 65114A38DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 190716s2020 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019946127 020 $a 0198852703 020 $a 9780198852704 035 $a (OCoLC)1111781298 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d STF $d NYP $d OSZ $d MUU $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PS228.A65 $b S56 2020 082 04 $a 810.90054 $2 23 100 1 $a Sinykin, Dan, $e author. 245 10 $a American literature and the long downturn : $b neoliberal apocalypse / $c Dan Sinykin. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a viii, 185 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 8 $a Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a description of reality. And it is old. Since its origins among Jewish writers in the first centuries BCE, apocalypse has recurred as a tempting and available form through which to express a sense of hopelessness. Why has it appeared with such force in the US now? What does it mean?0This book argues that to find the meaning of our apocalyptic times we need to look at the economics of the last five decades, from the end of the postwar boom. After historian Robert Brenner, this volume calls this period the long downturn. Though it might seem abstract, the economics of the long downturn worked its way into the most intimate experiences of everyday life, including the fear that there would be no tomorrow, and this fear takes the form of 'neoliberal apocalypse'.0The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse-horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment about threats to white supremacy; apprehension that the nation has unleashed a violence that will consume it; claustrophobia within the limited scripts of neoliberalism; suffocation under the weight of debt-together form the discordant chord that hums under American life in the twenty-first century. For many of us, for different reasons, it feels like the end is coming soon and this book explores how we came to this, and what it has meant for literature. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Apocalyptic literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Apocalypse in literature. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Apocalypse in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896027 650 7 $a Apocalyptic literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00811395 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031831.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65114A38DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search