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"As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the emergence of new technologies pose a similar challenge to the one faced by American social realists a century ago: making the virtualization of capitalism legible within the conventions of the realist novel. In The Financial Imaginary, Alison Shonkwiler reads texts by Richard Powers, Don DeLillo, Jane Smiley, Teddy Wayne, and Mohsin Hamid to…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2017University of Minnesota Press · 200 pages · 9781517901516
- Other · English · 2017University of Minnesota Press · 200 pages · 9781517901523
- Other · English · 2017University of Minnesota Press · 9781452953939
- Other · English · 2017University of Minnesota Press · 9781452953922
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