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1 online resource (173 pages) |
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"There is no doubt that the beginning of the twenty-first century was marked by crises of debt. Less well known is that literature played a historical role in defining and teaching debt to the public. Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt addresses how neoliberal finance has depended upon a historical linking of geopolitical inequality and financial representation that positions the so-called 'Third World' as negative value, or debt. Starting with an analysis of Anthony Trollope's novel, The Eustace Diamonds, Goodman shows how colonized spaces came to inhabit this negative value. Promissory Notes argues that the twentieth-century continues to apply literary innovations in character, subjectivity, temporal and spatial representation to construct debt as the negative creation of value not only in reference to objects, but also houses, credit cards, students, and, in particular,'Third World' geographies, often leading to crisis. Yet, late twentieth century and early twenty-first literary texts, such as Soyinka's The Road and Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow, address the negative space of the indebted world also as a critique of the financial take-over of the postcolonial developmental state. Looking to situations like the Puerto Rican debt crisis, Goodman demonstrates how financial discourse is articulated through social inequalities and how literature can both expose and contest the imposition of a morality of debt as a mode of anti-democratic control." -- Title screen. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Futures and fictions : the right to make promises and the object that never was -- 2. Debt's geographies : inequality, or development's dance with dead capital. |
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Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (Lever Press, viewed November 2, 2018). |
| Subject |
Debt in literature.
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Literature and society.
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Debt -- Social aspects.
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Neoliberalism.
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Equality.
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Democracy.
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Dettes dans la littérature.
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Littérature et société.
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Dettes -- Aspect social.
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Néo-libéralisme.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Debt in literature
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Debt -- Social aspects
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Democracy
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Equality
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Literature and society
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Neoliberalism
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781643150000 |
| ISBN |
9781643150024 (electronic bk.) |
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1643150022 (electronic bk.) |
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9781643150027 (electronic bk.) |
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9781643150000 |
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1643150006 |
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9781643150000 |
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AU@ 000065477157 |
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AU@ 000066327447 |
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AU@ 000068978250 |
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