Allegories of Neoliberalism

Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "forms of appearance."

Autorentext

Sarker Hasan Al Zayed is Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) where he teaches literature and cultural studies. He is the translator of Ian Almond's The Thought of Nirad C Choudhury: Islam, Empire and Loss. His essays have appeared in South Asian Review, Crossings, Harvest, and other academic journals and anthologies.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Allegorizing Neoliberalism

2. "Kanna" and the Monetization of Affect

3. The White Tiger and the Subsumption of the Rural

4. Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the "Empire of Finance"

5. Conclusion: In the Ruins of Neoliberalism