American literature and the long downturn : neoliberal apocalypse

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American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
	America
	The Long Downturn
	Neoliberalism
	Apocalypse
	Methodology
	The Structure of This Book
1: James Baldwin’s Apocalypse
	Last Days of the American Empire
	Sequel
	A Delicate and Dangerous Position
	The Ultimate Justice of Things
	The Last Witness
	The Silence That Undid Me
2: White Rage, White Rapture
	Whiteness Studies
	What Lives Inside You
	Your Tomb That You Built
	Attack!
	Pompeii Has Returned!
	The Pieces Are Scattered in Small Bits
	Enslave the American Economy, Enslave the World
	The End Is Near, You Will Be Saved
3: Evening in America
	The Way of the World
	Illusions of Progress
	Against Enclosure
	Apocalyptic Finance
4: Human Capital
	Wire Racks at the Grocery Store
	Laughter, the Best Medicine
	Of Course, the Book Will Be Mine
	Up and Away Like Flocks of Small Birds
	They Are Not Intended to Make Sense
	The Devil’s Falsehoods
	Ethnogenesis
5: Almost Magic
	A Failed Entertainment
	Can Such a U.S.A. Hope to Survive?
	Everyone’s an Addict
	Buy These Poor Yutzes Some Time
	Everything Unendurable Was in the Head
	You Get to Decide
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index