Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis

This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, DavidMitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics torepresent global economic and ecological crises. Paying close attention to theinterrelations between postcolonial, world, and global literatures, this bookargues that postcolonial literary studies cannot account for global crises thatexceed the national and anti-colonial. Advocating an interdisciplinary frameworkinformed by a synthesis of materialist literary theory with world-systems theory,combining Fredric Jameson and Georg Lukács with Giovanni Arrighi and Jason W.Moore, this book examines how global literatures metabolise not only socioeconomicconditions, but also transformations in the world-ecology, andemergent developmental and epochal crises of capitalism.