The Global Novel And Capitalism In Crisis: Contemporary Literary Narratives

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This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises. Paying close attention to the interrelations between postcolonial, world, and global literatures, this book argues that postcolonial literary studies cannot account for global crises that exceed the national and anti-colonial. Advocating an interdisciplinary framework informed by a synthesis of materialist literary theory with world-systems theory, combining Fredric Jameson and Georg Lukács with Giovanni Arrighi and Jason W. Moore, this book examines how global literatures metabolise not only socioeconomic conditions, but also transformations in the world-ecology, and emergent developmental and epochal crises of capitalism. Acknowledgments......Page 7 Contents......Page 10 Part I: Global, Postcolonial, and World Literatures......Page 12 Part II: Literature and Crisis......Page 18 Part III: The Global Novel: Overview......Page 22 Works Cited......Page 29 Part I: World Lite, Global Lit......Page 35 Part II: Realism, Form, and Crisis......Page 38 Part III: World-Systems Theory and Capitalism-in-Crisis......Page 45 Works Cited......Page 51 Part I: Introduction: Postcolonial Disenchantment......Page 55 Part II: The Moor’s Last Sigh and the Capitalist Realist Epic......Page 57 Historical Realism and Corporate Capitalism......Page 59 Capitalist Realism and the Waning of Epic Fabulism......Page 63 Collage and Totality......Page 68 Part III: The Ground Beneath Her Feet’s Incommensurable Worlds......Page 70 Mythic Cosmopolitanism......Page 72 Form and Incommensurability......Page 75 Part IV: America’s Signal Crisis in Fury......Page 78 End of Empire and Hyperrealism......Page 80 Libidinal Apparatuses and Geopolitical Allegory......Page 84 Works Cited......Page 91 Part I: Introduction: A “Novel Globalism”......Page 97 Satellite Eye: Organising Nature and Eco-Apocalypse......Page 102 Chance and Causality......Page 107 Non-Corpums and the Repressed Capitalist Real......Page 110 Neo-Malthusianism, Biopolitics, and Ecological Crisis......Page 113 Predacity and Universality......Page 115 Consumption and Eco-Dystopia......Page 118 Power and Biophysical Exhaustion......Page 121 Part IV: The Bone Clocks, Vampirish Predacity, and Climate Change......Page 125 Predacious Neoliberalism and Vampirish Anchorites......Page 127 Near-Future Climate Disasters and Salvific Prescients......Page 130 Works Cited......Page 134 Part I: Introduction: World-Systemic Realism......Page 140 “The Changeling” and SynTime......Page 145 Principled Relativism: “The Store on Madison Avenue” and Commodity Fetishism......Page 151 “The Flyover” and Market Relations......Page 154 Post-revolutionary Youths and the Antidevelopmental Novel......Page 159 Aesthetic Attitudes to Globalisation......Page 163 Technics of Global Discipline......Page 167 Works Cited......Page 172 Part I: Introduction: Resources and Historical Novels......Page 177 Part II: Reading for Sugar in Telex from Cuba......Page 181 Sugar, Resources, and (Neo)-Colonialism......Page 182 Plantations and Plot......Page 185 The World-Historical Novel and Peripeteia......Page 189 Galvanic Feeling and Art......Page 195 “We Want Everything”: Energy and Suspension......Page 198 Works Cited......Page 205 7 Conclusion: Towards a Literary Internationale?......Page 209 Works Cited......Page 214 Index......Page 216