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OverviewThis book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson. All of them share interests in the politics of the left, the problems of protracted economic crisis, and the potentiality of post-capitalist ideas. Novels by these authors, this book argues, are defined by an imperative to confront current anxieties in left-thought, while, at the same time, evincing a nuanced degree of self-consciousness about the legacy of political radicalisms, the costs they accrue, and where they have led. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew RowcroftPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9781476692265ISBN 10: 1476692262 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 29 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Abstract Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. A Search for Method 2. Reading the New Ruins: Mourning, Melancholy, and Loss in Dissident Gardens and Eat the Document 3. The Return of the Spectre: Gothic Marxism in The City & The City 4. From Reel to Real: Forming Radicalism in The Flamethrowers 5. Dying to Buy: Evicted, Apartment, and Generation Rent 6. Fictions of Financial Crisis: Pynchon, Marx, Neoliberalism 7. Growing Up, Growing Old, in Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn 8. Capital, Liquidity, and Revolution in New York: 2140 Epilogue Appendix Chapter Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""Drawing on and extending Jameson's critical practice, the author pays careful attention to the ways that contemporary writers formally register the crises and promises of left-wing politics""--Stephen Schryer, author of Maximum Feasible Participation: American Literature and the War on Poverty ""Rowcroft's persuasive and clear-sighted book represents and important intervention in the study of contemporary fiction and left politics""--Arin Keeble, author of Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism" Author InformationAndrew Rowcroft is an associate lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln in England. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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