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What is American Literature and the Long Downturn : Neoliberal Apocalypse about?
Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a description of reality. And it is old. Since its origins among Jewish writers in the first centuries BCE, apocalypse has recurred as a tempting and available form through which to express a sense of hopelessness. Why has it appeared with such force in the US now ? What does it mean ? This book argues that to find the meaning of our apocalyptic times we need to look at the economics of the last five decades, from the end of the postwar boom. After historian Robert Brenner, this volume calls this period the long downturn. Though it might seem abstract, the economics of the long downturn worked its way into the most intimate experiences of everyday life, including the fear that there would be no tomorrow, and this fear takes the form of 'neoliberal apocalypse'. The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse, horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment ab
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- Author
- Sinykin, Dan;
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192594259
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Business