Global Capitalism and the Novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashir Abu-Manneh
Keyword(s):  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel

Empathy and the Geopolitical

2017 ◽  
pp. 125-156
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
World Health ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Medical Resource ◽  
Medical Migration ◽  
Double Time ◽  
Relations Of Power

This chapter focuses on medicine and empathy in the context of global capitalism. It argues that our affective interactions are necessarily embedded in, and inflected by, structural and material relations of power. Empathy emerges as an affect that follows existing routes of privilege. The first section, ‘Medical migrations’, analyses current debates about the relation of medical migration to inequalities in world health and traces the circuits by and through which medical resource is distributed. Turning to Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love, it is argued that Forna pays detailed attention to the unevenness of the global economics of medical resource, with specific reference to Sierra Leone. In the second section, Forna’s protagonist Adrian Lockheart is used to open up the question of how affect circulates, and where it sticks, in the novel and discusses Adrian’s empathetic misrecognition in the treatments of his patients in Sierra Leone. The final section asks whether change is possible in the novel, drawing out the significance of the novel’s double time frame to suggest that the unfulfilled political promise of the past can shape the future.

George Eliot's Estuarial Form

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-217
Author(s):  
Kyle McAuley
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Mill On The Floss ◽  
Ecological Form ◽  
Near Future

This essay recasts the central locale of The Mill on the Floss in order to show how the geography and society of George Eliot's novel function together as a conjoined ecological system. I show that the port at St. Ogg's is set on an estuary, and from this observation, I claim that the entanglement of multiple estuarial waters provides a formal model for the overall ecology of the novel. Referring to this system as “ecological form,” the essay shows how the characters’ misunderstanding of the estuarial nature of the St. Ogg's hydrography is the primary source of the communal divisions with which the novel is so famously riven. In so doing, this essay makes two methodological interventions, one local, and one slightly more global. In the first, I show how unsticking the progression of our criticism from that of a novel's plot—especially one with such a catastrophically strong telos as Mill’s—can allow us to view form and, particularly, geography as newly vital to literary history. This leads to the second intervention, in which I suggest that reading practices in an age of environmental collapse should look beyond disaster itself and toward affected communities’ systemic ties to those extraneous systems—economic, legal, imperial—that aid and abet disasters elsewhere and even ignore the potential for catastrophic reoccurrence in the near future. In other words, reading for water readily yields a wide-ranging map of global capitalism perhaps unexpectedly centered on a small town in Lincolnshire.

scholarly journals Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asako Nakai
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Whereas postcolonial criticism might have been entrapped into culturalism and identity politics, the novel, at least its best specimens, continues to address the more fundamental question of economic inequality whose relevance has been rediscovered since the 2008 financial crisis – or so Melissa Kennedy asserts in her latest book, Narratives of Inequality. The book offers an extensive survey of postcolonial fiction across different historical times and locations. Convinced that literary studies should play an important role in the critique of global capitalism along the lines of Thomas Piketty and Amartya Sen, Kennedy selects novels that explicitly handle economic vocabulary and subject-matter. According to her, these works register the same or similar structures of inequality regardless of their specific local, historical, and cultural contexts.

scholarly journals Social (in)Justice, or the Condition of Global Capitalism in the Lost Child (2015) by Caryl Phillips

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Caryl Phillips ◽  
Lost Child

AbstractThe present article is a critical rereading of Caryl Phillips’s latest novel The Lost Child (2015). It looks at the text as both a literary comment on the crisis of today’s global capitalism and as an acute socio-economic analysis of the crisis’ roots and effects. It is being argued that, by placing Wuthering Heights (1847) as an intertext for his contemporary novel and by linking the figure of Heathcliff with African slavery and contemporary poverty, Caryl Phillips aims to emphasise the affinity between the socio-economic conditioning of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, as well as between the contemporary and historical experience of economic marginalisation. Thus, he shows global capitalism as a universal experience of long modernity and asks some vital questions about its shape and its future. The following analysis, in line with recent scholarship in the field of postcolonial studies, combines postcolonial criticism with socioeconomic theories and argues that the novel deserves a place in the ongoing debates on the condition of the global economy, social (in)justice and (in)equality, which nowadays become part of the postcolonial literary scholarship.

scholarly journals Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West: Co-Opting Refugees into Global Capitalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sercan Hamza Bağlama
Keyword(s):  
Western Country ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Refugee Experience

In Exit West, Mohsin Hamid fictionally reimagines and universalises migrant/refugee experience by providing a realistic snapshot of the social, cultural, economic and political circumstances in their specific historical forms and reveals the psychology of loss, displacement and unbelonging leading to the victimisation of the protagonists in a foreign land. In order to critically analyse the victimisation of the refugee characters at a linguistic level in relation to the narrative of the West about migration and refugees in the twenty-first century, this study will focus on Exit West and explore the development of the central bias against migrants and refugees construed through metaphorical delegitimisation and discursive stigmatisation within the framework of the dichotomous construction of “them” and “us”. Over the course of the study, through a critical reading of the novel, this study will also discuss that the social, cultural and economic interpellation of the refugee characters into the dominant system in a western country should be taken into account within the context of the depoliticisation process of the refugee “crisis” in the world since apolitical humanist arguments, unable to materialistically articulate the problems, reproduce the binary paradigms of the orientalist mind-set and practically perpetuate the cultural, social, ideological and economic domination of global capitalism.

Stories without Plots

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-194
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Judith Sargent Murray ◽  
Philip Freneau ◽  
History Of ◽  
Periodical Essay

This chapter explains how the eighteenth-century genre of the periodical essay describes the modern economy as a complex system. Specifically distinguishing itself from the novel, the periodical (or Addisonian) essay narrates economic causality as multiplex and contingent: economic relations cannot be plotted around individual protagonists. The chapter offers a history of the importance of the periodical essay in American literature, and specifically focuses on the examples of the genre by Philip Freneau, Judith Sargent Murray, and Charles Brockden Brown. Although these writers represent very different ideological positions, they each use the generic affordances of the periodical essay to depict the intricate dependencies that constitute global capitalism. The periodical essay thus presents a belletristic form that functions similarly to Hamilton’s policy writing: speculative fictions that narrate the possible consequences that descend from individual moments of production, exchange, and consumption.

Spinning wool into silver

2015 ◽  
pp. 99-121
Author(s):  
Lisa Burner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
Silver Mining ◽  
Clorinda Matto De Turner ◽  
Economic Boom

The novel Aves sin nido (1889) by Clorinda Matto de Turner has been principally read as a dramatization of the clash between modern civilization and backwards traditionalism. This article reconsiders this interpretation by situating the novel in the context of the economic boom in wool exports in the southern highlands of Peru. Reading Aves sin nido as a “romance of capital investment,” the article proposes that the central conflict animating the novel is the encounter between a liberal utopian vision of capital investment—exemplified by silver mining—and the violent on-theground realities of the wool export economy at the periphery of nineteenth-century global capitalism.

scholarly journals THE REFLECTION OF THE GLOBAL CAPITALISM SYSTEM IN SUZANNE COLLINS’S THE HUNGER GAMES

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fadhly Thahir ◽  
Fathu Rahman ◽  
Mustafa Makka
Keyword(s):  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
The People ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Government ◽  
Literature Theory

The aim of this research is to describe the reflection of the global capitalism system in Suzanne Collins’s novel The Hunger Games. This research also explains on how the influences between The Hunger Games with the portrait of the global capitalism in the world. The research uses qualitative descriptive methods trough sociology of literature theory. It focuses on the relation of intrinsic elements in the literary works with the reality aspect from the society. The data constitute both primary and supporting data. The primary data was taken from the novel itself The Hunger Games, while supporting data are taken from books, theses, journal and articles from internet which related to the topic of the research. The result of research shows that The Hunger Games novel represented the global capitalism system in many ways. The differences between Capitol and all districts considered as the symbol of capitalism system where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The government of Panem which stayed in Capitol can be easily to control and dictated the people across the countryside. The global capitalism system in the novel reflected through the way of government of Panem control the economic side, market value, and political side.

The novel steroidal glycoside from the dried bulb of Allium Macrostemon Bunge inhibits platelet activation

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S33-S33
Author(s):  
Wenchao Ou ◽  
Haifeng Chen ◽  
Yun Zhong ◽  
Benrong Liu ◽  
Keji Chen
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Activation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Steroidal Glycoside ◽  
Allium Macrostemon
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