World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent

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This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are experienced in Europe and America. This collection seeks to restore globalized capitalism as the primary object of critique and to distinguish between neoliberal ideology and processes of neoliberalization. It explores the ways in which cultural studies can teach us about aspects of neoliberalism that economics and political journalism cannot or have not: the particular affects, subjectivities, bodily dispositions, socio-ecological relations, genres, forms of understanding, and modes of political resistance that register neoliberalism. Using a world-systems perspective for cultural studies, the essays in this collection examine cultural productions from across the neoliberal world-system, bringing together works that might have in the past been separated into postcolonial studies and Anglo-American Studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi World-Culture and the Neoliberal World-System: An Introduction (Sharae Deckard, Stephen Shapiro)....Pages 1-48 The Long 1970s: Neoliberalism, Narrative Form, and Hegemonic Crisis in the Work of Marlon James and Paulo Lins (Michael Niblett)....Pages 49-68 From “Section 936” to “Junk”: Neoliberalism, Ecology, and Puerto Rican Literature (Kerstin Oloff)....Pages 69-91 Mont Neoliberal Periodization: The Mexican “Democratic Transition,” from Austrian Libertarianism to the “War on Drugs” (Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado)....Pages 93-110 Cricket’s Neoliberal Narratives: Or the World of Competitive Accumulation and Sporting Spirit in Contemporary Cricket Fiction (Claire Westall)....Pages 111-130 Keeping It Real: Literary Impersonality Under Neoliberalism (Daniel Hartley)....Pages 131-155 The Cultural Regulation of Neoliberal Capitalism (Mathias Nilges)....Pages 157-174 Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite: Monetized War, Militarized Money—A Narrative Poetics for the Closing of an American Century (Richard Godden)....Pages 175-194 A Bubble in the Vein: Suicide, Community, and the Rejection of Neoliberalism in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life and Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows (Amy Rushton)....Pages 195-213 Futures, Inc.: Fiction and Intellectual Property in the (South) African Renaissance (Matthew Eatough)....Pages 215-237 Trains, Stone, and Energetics: African Resource Culture and the Neoliberal World-Ecology (Sharae Deckard)....Pages 239-262 Back Matter ....Pages 263-269