Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction

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Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction is written by Roberto del Valle Alcalá and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000750892 (ISBN 10) and 9781000750898 (ISBN 13).

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.