03375cam a2200613 4500 1863427510 TxAuBib 20250117120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781643150024 1643150022 B094WBP4WY Amazon f87ccf14-699f-4529-9c9e-77ca6025ccc3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10989374 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Goodman, Robin Truth. Promissory Notes [Libby eBook] : On the Literary Conditions of Debt. Lever Press, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. The Eustace Diamonds. Wizard of the Crow. representation. Puerto Rico. Third World. Geopolitics. Capitalism. inequality. literature. neoliberal. democracy. colonized. spending. the road. realist. Fiction. Finance. History. Credit. Wealth. writer. money. power. Wages. novel. Bank. debt. HTML:There is no doubt that the beginning of the twenty-first century was marked by crises of debt. Less well known is that literature played a historical role in defining and teaching debt to the public. <i>Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt</i> addresses how neoliberal finance has depended upon a historical linking of geopolitical inequality and financial representation that positions the so-called "Third World" as negative value, or debt. Starting with an analysis of Anthony Trollope's novel, <i>The Eustace Diamonds,</i> Goodman shows how colonized spaces came to inhabit this negative value. <i>Promissory Notes</i> argues that the twentieth-century continues to apply literary innovations in character, subjectivity, temporal and spatial representation to construct debt as the negative creation of value not only in reference to objects, but also houses, credit cards, students, and, in particular, "Third World" geographies, often leading to crisis. Yet, late twentieth century and early twenty-first literary texts, such as Soyinka's <i>The Road</i> and Ngugi's <i>Wizard of the Crow,</i> address the negative space of the indebted world also as a critique of the financial take-over of the postcolonial developmental state. Looking to situations like the Puerto Rican debt crisis, Goodman demonstrates how financial discourse is articulated through social inequalities and how literature can both expose and contest the imposition of a morality of debt as a mode of anti-democratic control. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-01-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f87ccf14-699f-4529-9c9e-77ca6025ccc3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f87ccf14-699f-4529-9c9e-77ca6025ccc3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)