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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

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