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As the world has been reshaped since the 1970's by economic globalization, neoliberalism, and financialization, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands upon literature, art, and mass media to develop strategies of representation that can account for capitalism's power. Reading Capitalist Realism presents some of the latest and most sophisticated approaches to the question of the relation between capitalism and narrative form,

Capitalism in literature. --- American literature --- Realism in literature. --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism. --- Capitalism --- History --- E-books --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital