Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
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Beschreibung
This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society. It tackles some of the most urgent questions of contemporary life by examining the stories about work that novels produce. Including detailed readings of authors such as Douglas Coupland, David Foster Wallace, Joshua Ferris, Arivand Adiga, Chetan Bhagat and Monica Ali it explores how the presentation of fictional characters lays open the experience of insecure and precarious existence in the contemporary era. This study illustrates that novels provide an essential tool for understanding what work is and how we feel when we do it.
Explores how novelists have responded to the changes in the contemporary work economy
Argues that the growth of flexible labour has produced narratives of nostalgia, generational contest and feelings of insecurity across a range of national contexts
Unites a wealth of literary perspectives, from critical theorists to American, British and Indian novelists
Explores how novelists have responded to the changes in the contemporary work economy Argues that the growth of flexible labour has produced narratives of nostalgia, generational contest and feelings of insecurity across a range of national contexts Unites a wealth of literary perspectives, from critical theorists to American, British and Indian novelists Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Liam Connell
Themen in »Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel«
worker isolation in literature Generation X Microserfs JPod Douglas Coupland Maurizio Lazzarato Franco Berardi literary critique of neoliberalism worker uncertainty in literature Judith Butler Walter Kirn David Foster Wallace work theory labor theory Arivand Adiga