edited by Alison Shonkwiler & Leigh Claire La Berge
260 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : a theory of capitalist realism / Alison Shonkwiler & Leigh Claire La Berge -- We can't afford to be realists : a conversation / Jodi Dean and Mark Fisher -- Part I. Novelistic realisms. Adultery, crisis, contract / Andrew Hoberek -- Things break apart : James Kelman, Ali Smith, and the neoliberal novel / Alissa G. Karl -- Things as they were or are : on Russell Banks's global realisms / Phillip E. Wegner -- Part II. Genres of mediation. Capitalist realism and serial form : the fifth season of The wire / Leigh Claire La Berge -- Like some dummy corporation you just move around the board : contemporary Hollywood production in virtual time and space / J.D. Connor -- Anti-capitalism and anti-realism in William T. Vollmann's Poor people / Caren Irr -- Part III. After and against representation. Beyond realism / Michel W. Clune -- Capitalism and reification : the logic of the instance / Timothy Bewes -- Communist realism / Joshua Clover -- Afterword : unreal criticism / Richard Dienst