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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: James Baldwin's Apocalypse
- 2: White Rage, White Rapture
- 3: Evening in America
- 4: Human Capital
- 5: Almost Magic
- Conclusion