Introduction: reading and writing the economic present Emily Johansen and Alissa G. Karl
1. The betrayals of neoliberalism in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy Emily S. Davis
2. Margaret Atwood’s dystopic fiction and the contradictions of neoliberal freedom Chris Vials
3. Neoliberalism and the limits of the human: Rawi Hage’s Cockroach Kit Dobson
4. Reading alongside the market: affect and mobility in contemporary American migrant fiction Pieter Vermeulen
5. The banal conviviality of neoliberal cosmopolitanism Emily Johansen
6. Managed risk and the lure of transparency in Anglophone African detective noir Matthew J. Christensen
7. The zero hour of the neoliberal novel Alissa G. Karl
8. Neoliberalism and the time of the novel Mathias Nilges
Biography
Emily Johansen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Her book, Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, was released in 2014. She has written recent articles for Critique, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Textual Practice.
Alissa G. Karl is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport, NY, USA. Her research investigates the economic histories and imaginaries that impact the production and form of modern and contemporary literature and culture, and has appeared in such venues as American Literature, Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, and Textual Practice.
