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 duree, 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
New Comparisons in World Literature |
| Release date: |
August 2018 |
| First published: |
2017 |
| Authors: |
Melissa Kennedy
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
229 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-319-86744-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary studies >
From 1900
|
| LSN: |
3-319-86744-X |
| Barcode: |
9783319867441 |
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