It Takes a Storyteller to Know a Storyteller

Global Capitalism in Post-Millennial North American Fiction

von Julia Nikiel

274 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9789004533271
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.01.2023
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill