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It takes a storyteller to know a storyteller : global capitalism in post-millennial North American fiction

Title
It takes a storyteller to know a storyteller : global capitalism in post-millennial North American fiction / by Julia Nikiel.
Author
Nikiel, Julia
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Description
vii, 274 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
"If it is indeed impossible to think beyond capitalism, then capital has become reality. If global capitalism organizes reality through the stories it weaves, capital is (as strong as) its fictions. If capital is reality and capital is fiction, then reality as such is fiction as well. It is by reading this fiction for both patterns and inconsistencies that contemporary individuals can challenge global capital and unveil its hypocrisies; and it is by fighting fiction with fiction, i.e. projecting new realities - such as those in the post-millennial novels by William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, and Dave Eggers - that people can imagine the world anew"--
Series Statement
European perspectives on the United States ; volume 6
Alternative Title
Global capitalism in post-millennial North American fiction
Subject
  • Gibson, William, 1948- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Coupland, Douglas > Criticism and interpretation
  • Eggers, Dave > Criticism and interpretation
  • Coupland, Douglas
  • Eggers, Dave
  • Gibson, William, 1948-
  • 2000-2099
  • American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • Canadian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • Capitalism in literature
  • Globalization in literature
  • American fiction
  • Canadian fiction
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Literary criticism.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9789004533271
  • 9004533273
  • 9789004533288 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022054969
OCLC
  • on1350797342
  • SCSB-14597052
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library