Capital Fictions by Ericka Beckman - 9780816679201

Capital FictionsThe Literature of Latin America's Export Age\nAuthor(s): Ericka Beckman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816679201, 978-0816679201\nSynopsis\nBetween 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee and bananas, capital and labor were relocated to new production centers, and barriers to foreign investment were removed. Capital Fictions investigates the key role played by literature in imagining and interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin Americas first major wave of capitalist modernization.\n\nUsing an innovative blend of literary and economic analysis and drawing from a rich interdisciplinary archive, Ericka Beck.