Globalization and LiteratureISBN: 978-0-7456-4024-2
Paperback
200 pages
December 2008, Polity
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Suman Gupta argues that, while literature has registered
globalization processes in relevant ways, there has been a missed
articulation between globalization studies and literary studies.
Examples are given of some of the ways in which this slippage is
now being addressed and may be taken forward, taking up such themes
as the manner in which anti-globalization protests and world cities
have figured in literary works; the ways in which theories of
postmodernism and postcolonialism, familiar in literary studies,
have diverged from and converged with globalization studies; and
how industries to do with the circulation of literature are
becoming globalized.
This book is intended for university-level students and teachers, researchers, and other informed readers with an interest in the above issues, and serves as both a survey of the field and an intervention within it.