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Peripheralizing DeLillo: Surplus Populations, Capitalist Crisis, and the Novel

Peripheralizing DeLillo: Surplus Populations, Capitalist Crisis, and the Novel

Travers, Thomas

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1501378392
ISBN13: 9781501378393
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 27 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Peripheralizing DeLillo tracks the historical arc of Don DeLillo's poetics as it recomposes itself across the genres of short fiction, romance, the historical novel, and the philosophical novel of time.

Drawing on theories that capital, rather than the bourgeoisie, is the displaced subject of the novel, Thomas Travers investigates DeLillo's representation of fully commodified social worlds and re-evaluates Marxist accounts of the novel and its philosophy of history. Deploying an innovative re-periodisation, Travers considers the evolution of DeLillo's aesthetic forms as they register and encode one of the crises of contemporary historicity: the secular dynamics through which a society organised around waged work tends towards conditions of under- and unemployment.

Situating DeLillo within global histories of uneven and combined development, Travers explores how DeLillo's treatment of capital and labour, affect and narration, reconfigures debates around realism and modernism. The DeLillo that emerges from this study is no longer an exemplary postmodern writer, but a composer of capitalist epics, a novelist drawn to peripheral zones of accumulation, zones of social death whose surplus populations his fiction strives to re-historicise, if not re-dialecticise as subjects of history.

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