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As If Revolution Was Possible: (Post)Neoliberalism and Metamodernism in Central American, Mexican, and United-statesian Film and Literature
Glassett, Zachary Nelson
Glassett, Zachary Nelson
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In As If Revolution Was Possible: (Post)Neoliberalism and Metamodernism in Central American, Mexican, and United-statesian Film and Literature, I argue that analyzing cultural production from Central America, Mexico, and the United States through a post-neoliberal and post-postmodern lens allows us to better understand (and, in some cases, anticipate) the material conditions and systems of (re)production of our current era. In my first chapter, I analyze how Julio Escoto’s novel Rey del albor: Madrugada anticipates the post-neoliberal and post-postmodern moment we are currently living. My second chapter presents a reading of Javier Peña and Kate Macer as examples of a shift towards a metamodern reading of noir in response to the ever-changing War on Drugs; it is followed by an examination of the material reality of a postneoliberal Mexico expressed in Antígona González by the protagonist, Antígona. In my final chapter, I analyze the altered Marxian system that feeds on Indigenous peoples in the film Sleep Dealer and novel Tikal futura through a colonial and capitalist context before I study the acts of resistance throughout both works as material expressions of Emil Keme’s conceptualization of Abiayala as a space made by and for Indigenous peoples in the colonial project that is the Americas. Through the study of these sources, I present a more cohesive comprehension of the post-neoliberal context of the works leads to a more concise and well-rounded understanding of the historical and economic factors underlying them, while post-postmodernism as an accompanying structure of feeling serves as a bridge between the socioeconomic contexts in which these works are produced and that are expressed therein.
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2024-08-31
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University of Kansas
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Literature, Comparative literature, Hispanic American studies, Abiayala, Anticapitalist, Indigenous, Metamodernism, Neoliberalism, Postcolonial