American literature and the long downturn : neoliberal apocalypse

American literature and the long downturn : neoliberal apocalypse / Dan Sinykin.

This volume studies how the economic crisis of the 1970s and the rise of neoliberalism established the conditions for a contemporary American literary form: the neoliberal apocalypse. It reveals how contemporary American cultural and literary narratives have been shaped by the widespread tendency to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sinykin, Dan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > History and criticism > 20th century.
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism > 20th century.
Apocalypse in literature.
End of the world in literature.
End of the world in literature
American literature
Apocalypse in literature
Apocalyptic literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • James Baldwin's apocalypse
  • White rage, white rapture
  • Evening in America
  • Human capital
  • Almost magic.

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