Globalization and literature / Suman Gupta.
"This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the relationship betwe...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Polity,
2009.
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Series: | Themes in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The nuances of globalization
- Narrative performance
- Travels of a term
- Plan of this study
- 2. Movements and protests
- Plucking a theme
- Anti-globalization protests
- Peace movements
- V-Day
- 3. Global cities and cosmopolis
- Global teens
- Global cities
- Global city transactions
- Cosmopolitan order and cosmopolis
- Virtual cosmopolis
- 4. Literary studies and globalization
- Literary entanglements
- Turning to literary studies
- Globalization thematized
- Literary text
- Culture and identity
- 5. Postmodernism and postcolonialism
- Postmodernism
- Postcolonialism
- 6. Academic institutional spaces
- English studies
- Comparative literature/World literature
- A note on translation
- 7. The globalization of literature
- Dying authors
- Literary Industries.