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Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s

Autor Leigh Claire La Berge
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 ian 2015
The greed, excess, and decadence of the long 1980s has been famously chronicled, critiqued, and satirized in epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Leigh Claire La Berge offers an in-depth study of these fictions alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them, contending that throughout the 1980s, novelists, journalists, and filmmakers began to reimagine the capitalist economy as one that was newly personal, masculine, and anxiety producing. The study's first half links the linguistic to the technological by exploring the arrival of ATMs and their ubiquity in postmodern American literature. In transformative readings of novels such as White Noise and American Psycho, La Berge traces how the ATM serves as a symbol of anxious isolation and the erosion of interpersonal communication. A subsequent chapter on Ellis' novel and Jane Smiley's Good Faith explores how male protagonists in each develop unique associations between money and masculinity. The second half of the monograph features chapters that attend to works-most notably Oliver Stone's Wall Street and Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities-that capture aspects of the arrogance and recklessness that led to the savings-and-loan crisis and the 1987 stock market crash. Concluding with a coda on the recent Occupy Wall Street Movement and four short stories written in its wake, Scandals and Abstraction demonstrates how economic forces continue to remain a powerful presence in today's fiction.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199372874
ISBN-10: 019937287X
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 3 halftones
Dimensiuni: 234 x 160 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The book really gathers momentum with its discussion of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and Oliver Stone's film Wall Street.
Theoretically sophisticated and politically engaged, Scandals and Abstraction is a tour-de-force treatment of how financial logics circulated in 1980s' literature and culture. La Berge asks compelling questions and the answers she provides offer startling insights into some of the ways financialization has altered our lives.
Taking up the question
For the economists Kiyotaki and Moore, money is 'strange stuff.' Financial monies, in the apparent opacity of their workings, seem yet stranger. La Berge brings clarity to the financial turn by way of the founding assumption that the material practices of an economy

Notă biografică

Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at St. Mary's University.