| 书目名称 | Narratives of Inequality | | 副标题 | Postcolonial Literar | | 编辑 | Melissa Kennedy | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Represents an original approach to the study of postcolonial literature, investigating it from an economic perspective.Covers a genuinely global range of authors and texts.Spans both literary and soci | | 丛书名称 | New Comparisons in World Literature | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today’s economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and minority groups of postcolonial societies in both developed and developing countries, is a direct outcome of the colonial-era imposition of capitalist structures and practices. The .longue durée., world-systems approach in this study reveals repeating patterns and trends in the mechanics of capitalism that create and maintain inequality. As well as this, it reveals the social and cultural beliefs and practices that justify and support inequality, yet equally which resist and condemn it..Through analysis of narrative representations of wealth accumulation and ownership, structures of internal inequality between the rich and the poor within cultural communities, and the psychology of capitalism that engenders particular emotions and behaviour, this study brings postcolonial literary economics to the neoliberal debate, arguing for the important contribution of the imaginary to the pressing issue of economic inequality and | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Labour; Poverty; Property; Financial crisis; Recession; Austerity | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59957-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-86744-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-59957-1Series ISSN 2634-6095 Series E-ISSN 2634-6109 | | issn_series | 2634-6095 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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