Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: Capital Fictions

I. Boom

1. Production: Imagining the Export Republic

2. Consumption: Modernismo’s Import Catalogues

II. Bust

3. Money I: Financial Crisis and the Stock Market Novel

4. Money II: Bankruptcy and Decadence

5. Exploitation: A Journey to the Export Real

Conclusion: Return to Macondo

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Ericka Beckman is assistant professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews

"Linking economics and culture, "Capital Fictions "makes a serious contribution to the field of Latin American studies. Ericka Beckman takes us on a beautifully written tour of a number of texts, both canonical and marginal to the Latin American tradition, to expose a writerly anxiety for the new economic age that has opened Latin America to the vicissitudes of the commodity market and to the tropes that come with the exchange, sale, display, and consumption of commodity form. The result is a deeply satisfying text that alerts us to new possibilities of interpretation and critique." --Francine R. Masiello, author of "The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis"