The zero hour of the neoliberal novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5727360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alissa G Karl (SUNY Brockport, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 335-355 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2014.993523 |
| OpenAlex | W2008236249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay examines how contemporary neoliberal regimes of labour are formalized and historicized within the recent novel. Specifically, I elaborate on the status of the labouring body in neoliberal labour markets as decidedly linked to the evacuation of linear temporality, and claim that contemporary novels are similarly invested in exploring new forms of historical and temporal anachrony, and in linking these to matters of bodily cohesion and subject formation. The essay offers a detailed reading of how Nicola Barker’s 2007 novel Darkmans enacts and negotiates the tendencies of neoliberal labour markets at interlocking thematic and formal levels. In particular, I contend that while Barker’s and other neoliberal novels do demonstrate the decontained status of bodies and time in the neoliberal present, they also – and perhaps more fundamentally – historicize such conditions and thus trouble the collapse of historical and labouring temporality under neoliberal thought and policy
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |