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Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics de Melissa Kennedy

Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics: New Comparisons in World Literature

Autor Melissa Kennedy
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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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319599564
ISBN-10: 3319599569
Pagini: 299
Ilustrații: IX, 229 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria New Comparisons in World Literature

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Colonial Capitalism.- 3. Neocolonialism.- 4. Global Neoliberalism.- 5. Conclusion.- Works Cited.- Index.

Notă biografică

Melissa Kennedy is Guest Professor of Literature and Culture Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She publishes on New Zealand and Maori fiction as well as materialist approaches to poverty and wealth in postcolonial and world fiction. Her work brings together literature and economics, both disciplines that narrativise human interaction. She is the author of Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand Literary Tradition (2011).

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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.

Caracteristici

Represents an original approach to the study of postcolonial literature, investigating it from an economic perspective Covers a genuinely global range of authors and texts Spans both literary and sociological theory Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras