Global Matters : : The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies /

Global Matters : : The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies / / 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...

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Jay, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2014
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Globalization and the Study of Literature
  • 1. Difference, Multiculturalism, and the Globalizing of Literary Studies
  • 2. What Is Globalization?
  • 3. Economies, Cultures, and the Politics of Globalization
  • 4. Border Studies
  • Part II Globalization in Contemporary Literature
  • 5. Post–Postcolonial Writing in the Age of Globalization: THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN, MOTH SMOKE
  • 6. Globalization and Nationalism in Kiran Desai’s THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS
  • 7. The Cultural Politics of Development in Zakes Mda’s THE HEART OF REDNESS
  • 8. Multiculturalism and Identity in Zadie Smith’s WHITE TEETH
  • 9. Transnational Masculinities in Junot Díaz’s THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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