TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy,Melissa ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics T2 - New Comparisons in World Literature SN - 9783319599571 AV - PN441-1009.5 U1 - 809 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Literature    KW - Comparative literature KW - Literature, Modern—20th century KW - Literature, Modern—21st century KW - Postcolonial/World Literature KW - Comparative Literature KW - Contemporary Literature N1 - 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Capitalism -- 3. Neocolonialism -- 4. Global Neoliberalism -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today’s economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and minority groups of postcolonial societies in both developed and developing countries, is a direct outcome of the colonial-era imposition of capitalist structures and practices. The longue durée, world-systems approach in this study reveals repeating patterns and trends in the mechanics of capitalism that create and maintain inequality. As well as this, it reveals the social and cultural beliefs and practices that justify and support inequality, yet equally which resist and condemn it. Through analysis of narrative representations of wealth accumulation and ownership, structures of internal inequality between the rich and the poor within cultural communities, and the psychology of capitalism that engenders particular emotions and behaviour, this study brings postcolonial literary economics to the neoliberal debate, arguing for the important contribution of the imaginary to the pressing issue of economic inequality and its solutions UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59957-1 ER -