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Globalization and Literature

ISBN: 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

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