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American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse by Dan Sinykin (review)
Ist Teil von
Studies in the Novel, 2021-07, Vol.53 (2), p.198-200
Ort / Verlag
Denton: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE: Universal journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]even though the apocalypticism Sinykin identifies in the literature of the long downturn represents a failure of politics, he nevertheless sees it as a very telling failure of politics. [...]his literary analyses treat apocalypticism symptomatically, using its presence to critique neoliberal America and highlight many of the long downturn’s socio-economic contradictions. [...]Infinite Jest offers only personal-affective solutions to an institutional and structural problem, leaving it complicit with rather than resistant to America’s fin de siècle neoliberal apocalypse. [...]instead of wrestling a dissertation into a book, or transforming academic articles into chapters, Sinykin has actually worked up a body of writing originally intended for a more general audience into an academic monograph.