Globalization and LiteratureISBN: 978-0-7456-4024-2
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200 pages
December 2008, Polity
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Acknowledgements ix
1 The Nuances of Globalization 1
Narrative Performance 1
Travels of a Term 3
Plan of this Study 10
2 Movements and Protests 13
Plucking a Theme 13
Anti-Globalization Protests 14
Peace Movements 23
V-Day 31
3 Global Cities and Cosmopolis 37
Global Teens 37
Global Cities 38
Global City Transactions 43
Cosmopolitan Order and Cosmopolis 48
Virtual Cosmopolis 53
4 Literary Studies and Globalization 62
Literary Entanglements 62
Turning to Literary Studies 65
Globalization Thematized 66
Literary Text 71
Culture and Identity 85
5 Postmodernism and Postcolonialism 97
Postmodernism 97
Postcolonialism 107
6 Academic Institutional Spaces 123
English Studies 123
Comparative Literature/World Literature 136
A Note on Translation 146
7 The Globalization of Literature 151
Dying Authors 151
Literary Industries 159
References 171
Index 185