LEADER 03257nam 22005895 450 001 9910255079003321 005 20240322062505.0 010 $a9783319599571 010 $a3319599577 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-59957-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000001040285 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-59957-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5132161 035 $a(Perlego)3497010 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001040285 100 $a20171108d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNarratives of Inequality $ePostcolonial Literary Economics /$fby Melissa Kennedy 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 229 p.) 225 1 $aNew Comparisons in World Literature,$x2634-6109 311 08$a9783319599564 311 08$a3319599569 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Capitalism -- 3. Neocolonialism -- 4. Global Neoliberalism -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aThis book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today's economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and minority groups of postcolonial societies in both developed and developing countries, is a direct outcome of the colonial-era imposition of capitalist structures and practices. The longue durée, world-systems approach in this study reveals repeating patterns and trends in the mechanics of capitalism that create and maintain inequality. As well as this, it reveals the social and cultural beliefs and practices that justify and support inequality, yet equally which resist and condemn it. Through analysis of narrative representations of wealth accumulation and ownership, structures of internal inequality between the rich and the poor within cultural communities, and the psychology of capitalism that engenders particular emotions and behaviour, this study brings postcolonial literary economics to the neoliberal debate, arguing for the important contribution of the imaginary to the pressing issue of economic inequality and its solutions. 410 0$aNew Comparisons in World Literature,$x2634-6109 606 $aLiterature 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a809 700 $aKennedy$b Melissa$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0939934 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255079003321 996 $aNarratives of Inequality$92119194 997 $aUNINA