Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
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Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel

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Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel

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This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society. It tackles some of the most urgent questions of contemporary life by examining the stories about work that novels produce. Including detailed readings of authors such as Douglas Coupland, David Foster Wallace, Joshua Ferris, Arivand Adiga, Chetan Bhagat and Monica Ali it explores how the presentation of fictional characters lays open the experience of insecure and precarious existence in the contemporary era. This study illustrates that novels provide an essential tool for understanding what work is and how we feel when we do it.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319639284
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
  4. Part I Work in the Age of Neoliberalism
  5. Chapter 2 Reading Coupland Backwards: Time, Generationality and Work in Generation X, Microserfs and JPod
  6. Chapter 3 Precarity and Subjective Life: Matt Thorne’s Eight Minutes Idle and David Szalay’s London and the South East
  7. Part II The Work of Nations
  8. Chapter 4 Dying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour
  9. Chapter 5 Working Women and the Welfare State: Jenny Turner’s The Brainstorm
  10. Chapter 6 Indian Call Centres and the National Idea
  11. Chapter 7 Conclusion
  12. Index