Capitalism

Essay Question: Using Hymer’s strategies to embody capitalism (since neither Shelton or Stewart give the exact coordinates), discuss what is happening in the system of objects, the narrator/author, accumulations, and structures of feeling in Shelton’s and Stewart’s portrayals of the contemporary.

Read:

“Dark waters, Dark waters” by Allen Shelton

“ structures of feeling” by Raymond Willams

“ Robinson Crusoe and the secret of primitive accumulation” by Stephen Hymer

“Ordinary Affects” by Kathleen Stewart

  • https://monthlyreview.org/2011/09/01/robinson-crusoe-and-the-secret-of-primitive-accumulation/