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.
Author(s): Treasa De Loughry
Series: New Comparisons In World Literature
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 222
Tags: Postcolonial/World Literature
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
