{"product_id":"promissory-notes-on-the-literary-conditions-of-debt-paperback","title":"Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Truth Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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. \u003ci\u003ePromissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Eustace Diamonds, \u003c\/i\u003eGoodman shows how colonized spaces came to inhabit this negative value. \u003ci\u003ePromissory Notes\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003eand Ngugi's \u003ci\u003eWizard of the Crow, \u003c\/i\u003eaddress 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Truth Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of literature at Florida State University, where she has served concurrently as director of the Literature Program. A scholar at the intersection of feminist theory and the critique of neoliberal institutions and structures, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eGender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat\u003c\/i\u003e (2017); \u003ci\u003eGender Work: Feminism After Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e (2013); \u003ci\u003eFeminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the \"Re-privatization of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e (2010); \u003ci\u003ePolicing Narratives and the State of Terror \u003c\/i\u003e(2009); and \u003ci\u003eStrange Love, Or How We Learn To Stop Worrying and Trust the Market\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 134\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837594853573,"sku":"9781643150000","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/S5dvwAimR49781643150000.webp?v=1771281811","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/promissory-notes-on-the-literary-conditions-of-debt-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}