{"product_id":"after-critique-twenty-first-century-fiction-in-a-neoliberal-age-9780190067830","title":"After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age","description":"Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, \u003cem\u003eAfter Critique \u003c\/em\u003eidentifies a notable turn away from progressive politics among a cadre of key twenty-first-century authors. Through authoritative readings of foundational texts from writers such as Percival Everett, Helena\u003cbr\u003eViramontes, Uzodinma Iweala, Colson Whitehead, Tom McCarthy, and David Foster Wallace, Huehls charts a distinct move away from standard forms of political critique grounded in rights discourse, ideological demystification, and the identification of injustice and inequality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors discussed in \u003cem\u003eAfter Critique\u003c\/em\u003e register the decline of a conventional leftist politics, and in many ways even capitulate to its demise. As Huehls explains, however, such capitulation should actually be understood as contemporary U.S. fiction's concerted attempt to reconfigure the nature of\u003cbr\u003epolitics from within the neoliberal beast. While it's easy to dismiss this as post-ideological fantasy, Huehls draws on an array of diverse scholarship--most notably the work of Bruno Latour--to suggest that an entirely new form of politics is emerging, both because of and in response to\u003cbr\u003eneoliberalism. Arguing that we must stop thinking of neoliberalism as a set of norms, ideological beliefs, or market principles that can be countered with a more just set of norms, beliefs, and principles, Huehls instead insists that we must start to appreciate neoliberalism as a post-normative\u003cbr\u003eontological phenomenon. That is, it's not something that requires us to think or act a certain way; it's something that requires us to be in and occupy space in a certain way. This provocative treatment of neoliberalism in turn allows \u003cem\u003eAfter Critique\u003c\/em\u003e to reimagine our understanding of contemporary\u003cbr\u003efiction and the political possibilities it envisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mitchum Huehls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190067830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMitchum Huehls \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of \u003cem\u003eQualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time \u003c\/em\u003e(The Ohio State University Press, 2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39927184392307,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c9a3e809-8093-41b4-803d-a8b96d728a5b.jpg?v=1647523656","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/after-critique-twenty-first-century-fiction-in-a-neoliberal-age-9780190067830","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}