Introduction -- Part I. Broad trends. Contemporary North American narrative fiction and the landscapes of neoliberalism : the explosion of corporate capitalism and the spaces of the fallen American middle class -- Speculation, social conflict, and the ethics of untrammeled accumulation in the American neoliberal financier novel -- Spatial division, bricolage settlement, and informal economies in the developing-world slum novel -- -- Part II. Cases in point. Psycho-geographic orientation in the neoliberal city : establishing and contesting place identity in the nascent literature of Dubai -- Sense of place, consumer capitalism, and the sexual politics of global nomadism in the popular fiction of Dubai -- The spatial/political-economic dynamics of theme parks in contemporary transatlantic fiction -- Conclusion : humanistic study in a time of nightmare economics.
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