When Richard Sheets advises his victim, Eric Packer, protagonist of Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003), that he should have listened to his prostate, he not only diagnoses the asymmetry of economic information that has thwarted Packer’s speculative activities, but also points inwards and more [...]
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Shakespeare has long been seen as a writer with something to say about the economic. Karl Marx famously uses Timon of Athens to discuss the “power of money” in his 1844 Manuscripts and Capital Volume I. There are crucial economic questions in The Merchant of Venice, not only in the character [...]
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Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s second novel to be featured in my new article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers is a masterly work. The Case of Comrade Tulayev was written in 1942 and is situated [...]
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An early scene in Rosario Castellanos’ semi-autobiographical novel Balún Canán (1957), set in the late 1930s in Chiapas, Mexico, evokes a cozy scene of provincial childhood: a group of ladina or European-identified schoolgirls, the daughters of local landowners, sip posol, an indigenous [...]
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One of the most striking features of Victor Serge’s writings has to be the way he captures spatial arbiters that shape the practices of empowerment and containment within the territorial form of the city. As argued in my latest journal article published here in [...]
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The Financial Imaginary: A Masterclass and Lecture by Alison Shonkwiler
The Novel Network and the Department of English, University of Sydney, are pleased to announce a masterclass and lecture by Professor Alison Shonkwiler, Rhode Island College. Shonkwiler’s monograph The Financial [...]
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In Juan Rulfo’s pathbreaking 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, the eponymous great landowner states to his lawyers in the shadow of the Mexican revolution: “You lawyers have that advantage: you can take your patrimony everywhere, so long as you don’t get your face smashed in.” A law degree, the [...]
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Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. “One of the major sources of articulation and legitimation of free market expansion, as explored in [...]
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