Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- 1 Poetics, Ethics, and Globalization -- 2 Transnational Languages in Glissant's 'Tout-monde' -- 3 Relating (in Theory) in a Globalized World: Between Levinas's Ethics and Glissant's Poetics -- 4 French Theory -- 5 Redrawing the Hexagon: The Space of Culture in Malraux and Blanchot -- 6 Not Your Uncle: Text, Sex, and the Globalized Moroccan Author -- 7 Rationality, Realism, and the Poet(h)ic Problem of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello -- 8 Planetary Longings: Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV -- 9 Reframing Global/Local Poetics in the Post-imperial Pacific: Meditations on 'Displacement,' Indigeneity, and the Misrecognitions of US Area Studies -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors.
Following an introductory chapter by Mary Gallagher, which maps this conceptual terrain, the contributors investigate how globalization inflects the necessary relationship between poetics, culture, ethics, and politics.