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  • Chapter 7 - Writing Postcolonial Capitalism
  • from Part I - Histories and Critical Traditions
  • Edited by Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh, Peter Knight, University of Manchester, Nicky Marsh, University of Southampton
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics
  • Published online: 28 July 2022
  • Print publication: 11 August 2022, pp 114-130
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    This chapter examines literary representations and critiques of postcolonial capitalism, a form of capitalism that is practiced, rationalized, and imagined with respect to a historical and geopolitical consciousness of colonial subordination. Recognizing the significance of postcolonial capitalism as its own distinct formation, the essay argues, is important for rethinking dominant approaches to critical studies of capitalism. The essay examines how literary texts take up themes of postcolonial capitalism such as racial and historical difference as a form of cultural and social capital, subaltern capitalism, capitalism as redress for historical injustice, expressions of economic solidarity, and new configurations of power. Authors under discussion include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aravind Adiga, Amitav Ghosh, and Derek Walcott.