American Literature and the Long Downturn

Dan (Assistant Professor of English, Emory University) Sinykin

Oxford University Press, 2020

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This volume studies how the economic crisis of the 1970s and the rise of neoliberalism established the conditions for a contemporary American literary form: the neoliberal apocalypse. It reveals how contemporary American cultural and literary narratives have been shaped by the widespread tendency to see our present as apocalyptic.

ISBN-13
9780198852704
ISBN-10
0198852703
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2020
Publication date
2020-03-04
Pages
196
Dimensions
223x142x17
Weight
370