Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Introduction: We have never been neoliberal : critique's complicity, capitulation's promise -- Turning to presence : the contingent persons of human rights literature -- Embracing objects : public and private space in literary Los Angeles -- Objectifying race : or, what African American literature is -- Welcoming the world : post-ecological fiction -- Coda : accounting 101 : reading the exomodern