Commentary: It’s the economy, stupid: On the Costs of Marginalizing the Aesthetic
| Autor: | Laura Finch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | American Literary History. 31:818-828 |
| ISSN: | 1468-4365 0896-7148 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/alh/ajz045 |
| Popis: | This essay is a response to the pieces collected for the special issue of American Literary History on economics and literature, with a particular focus on those dealing with the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It makes two related arguments: first, that studies of the North American economy must center analyses of racial capitalism and settler colonialism as an inherent part of their work and not as an optional add-on. Secondly, I argue that the field of economics and literature loses much of its anti-capitalist potential when it allows the parameters of the debate to be set by the economy; that is, taking the terms of analysis, the texts for analysis, the methods of analysis, and suppositions about who can be read as an economic actor and what is an economic action from how they are defined by the economy precludes a disruption of these premises. I conclude by arguing for the importance of the aesthetic for reimaging the terms of the debate and offering a brief biography of writing on racial capitalism and settler colonialism that is already doing this work. |
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