![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adiga demonstrates the reverse, as rising India looks to replace America as the new neoliberal powerhouse. Mountford’s novel depicts Bolivia’s shift towards leftist policies and a potential rejection of neoliberal economics. In reference to the protagonist of Peter Mountford’s A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism (2011), Leerom Medovoi writes, “Gabriel is left, by the novel’s end, to represent nothing more than the declining power of a United States that can no longer pretend that its greatest opportunities still lie ahead.” What is left in the wake of the waning power of the United States as an empire? Peter Mountford’s A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) are two contemporary novels that portray contradictory potentials for the future of the global economy. ![]()
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