Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated
into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as
exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods.
During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the
cultivation of export commodities such as coffee and bananas,
capital and labor were relocated to new production centers, and
barriers to foreign investment were removed. Capital Fictions
investigates the key role played by literature in imagining and
interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin America's
first major wave of capitalist modernization. Using an innovative
blend of literary and economic analysis and drawing from a rich
interdisciplinary archive, Ericka Beckman provides the first
extended evaluation of Export Age literary production. She traces
the emergence of a distinct set of fictions, fantasies, and
illusions that accompanied the rise of export-led, dependent
capitalism. These "capital fictions" range from promotional
pamphlets for Guatemalan coffee and advertisements for French
fashions, to novels about stock market collapse in Argentina and
rubber extraction in the Amazon. Beckman explores how Export Age
literature anticipated some of the key contradictions faced by
contemporary capitalist societies, including extreme financial
volatility, vast social inequality, and ever-more-intense means of
exploitation. Questioning the opposition between culture and
economics in Latin America and elsewhere, Capital Fictions shows
that literature operated as a powerful form of political economy
during this period.
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