Economies of Scale
Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry
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Beschreibung
This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21st century North American poems engage with financialization. It argues that recent poems about economics not only discuss but enact concerns with containment and agency essential to the contemporary financialized economy by manipulating the seemingly old-fashioned figures of synecdoche (the representation of the whole by the part) and prosopopeia or personification. Its four body chapters offer in-depth readings of the work of eleven formally, culturally, and thematically diverse contemporary U.S. and Canadian poets who variously consider labor, consumerism, debt, and the derivative form; the Coda reads several recent poems about reparations in terms of an emerging tendency to emphasize the historical, racialized, and ethical contexts of contemporary economics. As the book explores financialization’s representation in recent poetry, it redresses arguments that poetry is irrelevant to contemporary culture.
Extends research on contemporary poetry and economics to examine twenty-first century North American poetry Examines the socio-political underpinnings of contemporary cultural production Draws on economics, sociology, anthropology, political theory, postcolonial studies and more
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Ann Keniston
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"With its lucid, compelling approach to the figures and forms of the economic present, Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry offers an essential account of contemporary poetry’s reflections on the logics of financialization. Through a series of deft readings of the work of key recent North American poets, Ann Keniston makes an essential case for poetry as a medium particularly suited for reflecting on capitalism’s abstract strategies and material realities." (Margaret Ronda, Associate Professor of English, University of California-Davis)
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