Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative : Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk (Hardcover)

Introduction  Paul Crosthwaite  I. Critical Thought/Critical Times  1. No Apocalypse, Not Yet: Literary Criticism in an Age of Global Risk  Molly Wallace  2. Beyond the Ghost Dance: Democracy and Emergency  Nick Mansfield  3. The Incredible Shrinking Human  Charlie Gere 4. The Risks of Sustainability  Karen Pinkus  II. Critical Perspectives on Crisis Narratives  5. The Rise of the Edge: Catastrophic Seascape and the Ecological Uncanny in Cormac McCarthy's The Road  Rebecca Giggs  6. Narrating the Coming Pandemic: Avian Influenza, Anticipatory Anxiety, and Neurotic Citizenship  Penelope Ironstone Catterall  7. Grey Goo and You: The Ecophagy of Global Capital  Robin Stoate  8. Risk and Morality in Ian McEwan's Saturday  Lidia De Michelis  9. After Globalization: Narratives of Post-American Hegemony  Imre Szeman  10. "The Corporation of Terror": Financial Fictions/Fictions of Finance  Nicky Marsh  11. Casino Royale, Financial Aesthetics, and National Narrative Form  Alissa G. Karl  12. Phantasmagoric Finance: Risk and the Supernatural in Contemporary Finance Culture  Paul Crosthwaite  13. Global Capitalism and a Dystopian South Africa: Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes  Andries Visagie