03257nam 22005895 450 991025507900332120240322062505.09783319599571331959957710.1007/978-3-319-59957-1(CKB)4100000001040285(DE-He213)978-3-319-59957-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5132161(Perlego)3497010(EXLCZ)99410000000104028520171108d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNarratives of Inequality Postcolonial Literary Economics /by Melissa Kennedy1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (IX, 229 p.) New Comparisons in World Literature,2634-61099783319599564 3319599569 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Capitalism -- 3. Neocolonialism -- 4. Global Neoliberalism -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today's economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and minority groups of postcolonial societies in both developed and developing countries, is a direct outcome of the colonial-era imposition of capitalist structures and practices. The longue durée, world-systems approach in this study reveals repeating patterns and trends in the mechanics of capitalism that create and maintain inequality. As well as this, it reveals the social and cultural beliefs and practices that justify and support inequality, yet equally which resist and condemn it. Through analysis of narrative representations of wealth accumulation and ownership, structures of internal inequality between the rich and the poor within cultural communities, and the psychology of capitalism that engenders particular emotions and behaviour, this study brings postcolonial literary economics to the neoliberal debate, arguing for the important contribution of the imaginary to the pressing issue of economic inequality and its solutions.New Comparisons in World Literature,2634-6109LiteratureComparative literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryWorld LiteratureComparative LiteratureContemporary LiteratureLiterature.Comparative literature.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernWorld Literature.Comparative Literature.Contemporary Literature.809Kennedy Melissaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut939934BOOK9910255079003321Narratives of Inequality2119194UNINA