Post-2008 literary realism claims to index capitalism directly

Evidence

After the global financial crisis of 2008, realism has become important and popular again, since, according to Leigh Claire La Berge and Alison Shonkwiler, it offers “the most thorough possible indexing of capitalism.” For Colleen Lye and Jed Esty, new realisms focused on the twenty-first-century world “offer an epistemologically grounded account of life inside the world system rather than negatively allegorizing the system’s indescribability.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 124

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s fight-with-the-Antitheory agenda: La Berge/Shonkwiler and Lye/Esty are the theorists making the case this book implicitly argues against. Also the Jameson relationship—late capitalism’s realism debates. — connects to: Realism requires access to any rising class, not specifically capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 405
• QUESTION: Can realism ‘index capitalism’ without that being itself an immediacy fantasy of unmediated transparency? This is a live question the reader can press against the whole chapter.