Jennifer Government, de Max Barry, e Estados-Nações: Neoliberalismo e a esfera pública da cultural - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i1.4052

Purnima Bose

doi:10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i1.4052

**Max Barry’s Jennifer Government and NationStates: neo-liberalism and the cultural public sphere** - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i1.4052

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Purnima Bose Indiana University

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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i1.4052

Keywords:

corporate power, cultural public sphere, Jennifer Government, Max Barry, nation-state, neoliberalism

Abstract

In the United States, many people point to the corporatization of the media and the impoverishment of the public sphere as symptomatic of a crisis in democracy. While the mainstream media has not given much attention to popular anger against corporate globalization, literary works have started to explore this terrain, suggesting that the cultural public sphere is a parapolitical site for debates about economic neo-liberalism and its effects on people. This essay analyzes the representation of neo-liberalism, corporate power, and resistance in Max Barry’s novel Jennifer Government and computer simulation game NationStates in the context of debates over globalization and the cultural public sphere.

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Author Biography

Purnima Bose, Indiana University

Associate Professor of English Director of Cultural Studies Adjunct Professor of American Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and India Studies PhD: Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993

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Published

2008-07-09

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Vol. 30 No. 1 (2008)

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Literature

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Max Barry’s Jennifer Government and NationStates: neo-liberalism and the cultural public sphere - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i1.4052. (2008). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 30(1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i1.4052