Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems : Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North American Pacific Rim.

The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and speculation as aesthetic and political-economic strategies in factual and fictional discourses emerging at the North American Paci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wegener, Susanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: transcript Verlag, 2014.
Series:American Culture Studies ; 7
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
American fiction > Themes, motives.
Risk in literature.
Speculation > In literature.
Roman américain > Thèmes, motifs.
Risque dans la littérature.
Spéculation > Dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
American fiction > Themes, motives
American literature
Risk in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : dealing in futures
  • Are you paranoid enough? Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and the politics of risk and speculation
  • Live on the edge I say : edgework, risk, and literary form in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
  • Monstrous politics : epistemological empowerment, natural science, and new territories of empire in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
  • Towards a poetics of risk and speculation.

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