Allegories of neoliberalism : contemporary south Asian fiction, capital, and utopia /
Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary south Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "forms of appearance." Thi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary south Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "forms of appearance." This book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay and other writers from south Asia and south Asian diaspora. It is also a rereading of Karl Marx's Capital through the themes and tropes of literature, one that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spatial relationship, financialization and ecological devastation through the lens of Marx's critique of capitalism. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 136 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [122]-130) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032349862 1032349867 9781032349848 1032349840 |