{"product_id":"promissory-notes-robin-truth-goodman-9781643150000","title":"Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt","description":"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. \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 \u003ci\u003ealso as a critique\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin Truth Goodman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643150006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643150000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lever Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Robin Truth Goodman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937122550015,"sku":"9781643150000","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_de75d71e-7f8a-46ab-9d93-4688f3226591.jpg?v=1681428351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/promissory-notes-robin-truth-goodman-9781643150000","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}