This Element explores the mechanisms through which'African literature', as a market
category, has been consecrated within the global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual …

This article traces a development in Jennifer Egan's literary ethos across her career: from a
worry about the negative effects of popular genre conventions in her early fiction to a …

Has the market really taken over every aspect of human life, as neoliberalism purports to
desire and as the rest of us sometimes fear? Have culture and politics and sexuality been …

This essay proposes a movements-based method for studying the development of US
literature after World War II. It argues that the cultural materialist and institutionalist …

Over the last four decades, the rise of the socio-political formation widely referred to as
neoliberalism has seen a particular model of freedom–the freedom of free markets, property …

How two seemingly separate forces—white power and neoliberalism—intersect and
polarize the United States today. White Power and American Neoliberal Culture speaks to …

Abstract British writer Tom McCarthy has repeatedly taken aim at what he calls a
“sentimental humanism” and the contemporary cult of the “authentic self”. This article …

This essay argues for the deep affinities between neoliberalism and environmental thought
that embraces such figures as fungi, swarms, and especially trees. While critics like Rob …

David Foster Wallace's short story,'Forever Overhead', follows a thirteenyear-old boy's
decision to jump off a diving board at a public swimming pool, and it ends with him about to …

Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the
housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and …