Global Matters The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies

Name: Global Matters The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies
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ISBN: 9780801476075

ISBN-10: 0801476070

ISBN-13: 9780801476075

Edition: 2014

Authors: Paul Jay

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As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature is being created by a remarkably transnational, multicultural group of writers exploring many of the same concerns, including the intersecting effects of colonialism, decolonization, migration, and globalization. Paul Jay surveys these developments, highlighting key debates within literary and cultural studies about the impact of globalization over the past two decades. Global Matters provides a…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies



Globalization and the Study of Literature



Difference, Multiculturalism, and the Globalizing of Literary Studies



What Is Globalization?



Economies, Cultures, and the Politics of Globalization



Border Studies: Remapping the Locations of Literary Study



Globalization in Contemporary Literature



Post-Postcolonial Writing in the Age of Globalization: The God of Small Things, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Moth Smoke



Globalization and Nationalism in Kiran Desai's: The Inheritance of Loss



The Cultural Politics of Development in Zakes Mda's: The Heart of Redness



Multiculturalism and Identity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth



Transnational Masculinities in Junot Dï¿½az's: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index