Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Carroll Note 11

Peter Fleming, likewise, makes the connection when he points out the frequency with which the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the resulting global recession were likened in the media to a tsunami. He goes on to suggest that the two actual tsunami that bookend the crisis, in 2004 and 2011, grounded the metaphor with real-life and up-close footage recorded on mobile phones and other handheld devices (1).

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