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Global Matters : The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801460357
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global MattersDDC classification:
  • 809
LOC classification:
  • PR9084
Online resources:
Contents:
GLOBAL MATTERS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies -- Part One: 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: Remapping the Locations of Literary Study -- Part Two: 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.
Summary: Global Matters provides a concise, informative overview of theoretical, critical, and curricular issues driving the transnational turn in literary studies and how these issues have come to dominate contemporary global fiction as well.
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GLOBAL MATTERS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies -- Part One: 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: Remapping the Locations of Literary Study -- Part Two: 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.

Global Matters provides a concise, informative overview of theoretical, critical, and curricular issues driving the transnational turn in literary studies and how these issues have come to dominate contemporary global fiction as well.

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