Allegories of Neoliberalism - 9781032349848

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Allegories of NeoliberalismContemporary South Asian Fictions, Capital, and Utopia\nAuthor(s): Sarker Hasan Al Zayed\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032349848, 978-1032349848\nSynopsis\nSimultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalisms forms of appearance.\n\nThis book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay, and other writers from South Asia and South Asian diaspora.\n\nIt also advances a re-reading of Karl Marxs Capital through the themes and tropes of literatureone that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spati.