Westall, Claire Louise (2016) Cricket and the World-System, or Continuity, “Riskless Risk” and Cyclicality in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. pp. 287-300. ISSN 1744-9863
Abstract
In Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008), cricket is the dominant thematic mechanism, and anchoring allegorical device, through which the novel encodes the capitalist world-system, including the ways in which structural continuity and “riskless risk” are glorified as the neo-liberal conditions for a cosmopolitan class of white international workers, in the face of, and directly at the expense of, their racialized, economic and cricketing “Other”. This encoding renders visible the “systemic cycles of accumulation” that characterize the history of capitalism. Yet the novel goes to extreme lengths to hold off, seemingly as perpetual delay, the failure-filled future consequences of its own leaked revelations. Hence, it is only by resituating Netherland in a world-systemic frame that critical sense can be made of Hans’s feigned cricketing bildung and the novel’s Dutch-English-American journey of cyclical continuity.
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Keywords: | Joseph O’Neill,Netherland,New York,continuity,cricket,risk,the British Empire,the Caribbean,the Dutch Republic,world-system |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > English and Related Literature (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2019 13:10 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:02 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1203102 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17449855.2016.1203102 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141819 |
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