American literature and the long downturn : neoliberal apocalypse

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Cover American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Introduction America The Long Downturn Neoliberalism Apocalypse Methodology The Structure of This Book 1: James Baldwin’s Apocalypse Last Days of the American Empire Sequel A Delicate and Dangerous Position The Ultimate Justice of Things The Last Witness The Silence That Undid Me 2: White Rage, White Rapture Whiteness Studies What Lives Inside You Your Tomb That You Built Attack! Pompeii Has Returned! The Pieces Are Scattered in Small Bits Enslave the American Economy, Enslave the World The End Is Near, You Will Be Saved 3: Evening in America The Way of the World Illusions of Progress Against Enclosure Apocalyptic Finance 4: Human Capital Wire Racks at the Grocery Store Laughter, the Best Medicine Of Course, the Book Will Be Mine Up and Away Like Flocks of Small Birds They Are Not Intended to Make Sense The Devil’s Falsehoods Ethnogenesis 5: Almost Magic A Failed Entertainment Can Such a U.S.A. Hope to Survive? Everyone’s an Addict Buy These Poor Yutzes Some Time Everything Unendurable Was in the Head You Get to Decide Conclusion Works Cited Index