Narratives of inequality : postcolonial literary economics / Melissa Kennedy.

This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today's economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by Indigenous and minority groups of postcolon...

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Main Author: Kennedy, Melissa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Series:New comparisons in world literature.
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505 0 |a Narratives of Inequality -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Postcolonial Economic Criticism -- Empire and Capitalism -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Colonial Capitalism -- The Irruption of Capitalism -- Capitalism in Settler Colonies -- Racism as Capitalist Ideology -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Neocolonialism -- Neocolonial Independence -- Internal Inequality and the Neocolonial 1% -- Satire as Response to Capitalismâ#x80;#x99;s Contradictions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Global Neoliberalism -- The Neoliberal City -- The Economics of Lack 
505 8 |a Emotional and Behavioural Responses to InequalityWorks Cited -- Chapter 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited 
520 |a This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today's economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by Indigenous and minority groups of postcolonial societies in both developed and developing countries, is a direct outcome of the colonial-era imposition of capitalist structures and practices. The longue durée, world-systems approach in this study reveals repeating patterns and trends in the mechanics of capitalism that create and maintain inequality. As well as this, it reveals the social and cultural beliefs and practices that justify and support inequality, yet equally which resist and condemn it. Through analysis of narrative representations of wealth accumulation and ownership, structures of internal inequality between the rich and the poor within cultural communities, and the psychology of capitalism that engenders particular emotions and behaviour, this study brings postcolonial literary economics to the neoliberal debate, arguing for the important contribution of the imaginary to the pressing issue of economic inequality and its solutions. 
650 0 |a Economics in literature. 
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