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