Introduction / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro -- Literature, theory, and the temporalities of neoliberalism / Eli Jelly-Schapiro -- Foucault, neoliberalism, algorithmic governmentality, and the loss of liberal culture / Stephen Shapiro -- The flamethrowers and the making of modern art / Myka Tucker-Abramson -- "On the very edge of fiction" : risk, representation, and the subject of contemporary fiction in Ben lerner's 10:04 / Hamilton Carroll -- Fictions of human capital; or, Redemption of neoliberal times / Christian P. Haines -- The uncanny re-worlding of the post-9/11 American novel, Joseph O'Neill's Netherland; or, The cultural fantasy work of neoliberalism / Donald E. Pease -- Desert stories : liberal anxieties and the neoliberal novel / Liam Kennedy -- Beyond precarity : ideologies of labor in anti-trafficking crime fiction / Caren Irr -- "Terminal insomnia" : sleeplessness, labor, and neoliberal ecology in Karen Russell's Sleep donation and Alex Rivera's Sleep dealer / Sharae Deckard -- Post-capitalism in space : Kim Stanley Robinson's utopian science fiction / Dan Hassler-Forest.
Summary:
"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 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?"--Back cover.
Series:
Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies
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