Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction write by Michael Walonen. This book was released on 2018-04-27. Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant large-scale social and ecological consequences of these are drastically remaking our world, cultural producers from across the globe are seeking to make sense of, and provide insights into, these complex changes. Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction takes a broad cross-cultural approach to analyzing the literature of our increasingly transnationalized world system, considering how its key constituent features and local-level manifestations have been thematized and imaginatively seized upon by literary fiction produced from the perspective of the periphery of the capitalist world system. Textual renderings of globalization are not simply second-order approximations of it, but constitutive elements of globalization that condition how it will be understood and responded to, and so coming to terms with the narrativizations of globalization is vital scholarly work, as, among other things, it allows us to see to what extent it is currently possible to imagine alternatives to globalization’s more baleful aspects. This work will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of areas including contemporary literary/cultural studies, globalization studies, international relations, and international political economy.
The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature
The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature write by Tammy Amiel Houser. This book was released on 2024-08-06. The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary novels, as well as various non-fictional texts, it traces the changing approaches to empathy in the post-financial-crisis imagination, highlighting a crucial re-conceptualization of empathy as a boundaryless force, untethered to local or social circumstance. This reconceptualization implicitly aligns empathy with the neoliberal ethos of globalism and distances it from the traditional notion of “sympathy.” Via complex dialogue with the novelistic tradition of sympathy, contemporary novelists highlight the problematics of boundaryless empathy, while exploring ways to resist neoliberal views and values. Analyzing engagements with empathy in post-2008 literature and culture, the book sheds light on the underlying affective dynamics that enabled the persistence of neoliberalism after the 2008 financial crisis, alongside efforts to challenge its dominance.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies write by Jeremy Tambling. This book was released on 2022-10-29. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity
Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity write by William Clapton. This book was released on 2024-11-08. Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity advances a novel methodological approach – pop culture as political object – to capture the centrality of popular culture as an object of a broad range of political contests and debates that constitute pop culture artefacts by generating and informing specific meanings and understandings of them. It is no longer novel to claim that popular culture matters to world politics. The literature on Popular Culture and World Politics (PCWP) has demonstrated the cultural basis of political action and meaning-making. However, this book argues that in doing so, the PCWP literature has focused primarily on the traditionally narrow range of issues, actors, and things that mainstream International Relations regards as part of world politics. While PCWP challenges restrictive disciplinary understandings of the sites of legitimate inquiry where one can purposefully gain knowledge about world politics, comparatively little has been done to challenge constricted understandings of what world politics is, who it involves, and where it takes place. Methodological approaches in the literature largely treat popular culture and politics as separate and therefore focus on understanding how popular culture relates to and intersects with a relatively circumscribed notion of world politics. Focusing on the everyday politics of how audiences perceive and contest popular cultural artefacts, this book demonstrates that pop culture does not merely intersect with or reflect discrete political processes; it is also directly situated as an object of politics. The author analyses current debates over identity politics across a range of contemporary pop cultural artefacts, including films and video games. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations, Political Science, and Cultural and Media Studies.
The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film
The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film write by Diana Q. Palardy. This book was released on 2018-07-27. The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barceló, Ion de Sosa, José Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Menéndez Salmón offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.
