Gupta Globalization and Literature

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5819-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: PTLC - Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationshipbetween globalization studies and literature and literary studies,and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with themanner in which globalization is thematized in literary works,examines the relationship between globalization theory and literarytheory, and discusses the impact of globalization processes on theproduction and reception of literary texts.
Suman Gupta argues that, while literature has registeredglobalization processes in relevant ways, there has been a missedarticulation between globalization studies and literary studies.Examples are given of some of the ways in which this slippage isnow being addressed and may be taken forward, taking up such themesas the manner in which anti-globalization protests and world citieshave figured in literary works; the ways in which theories ofpostmodernism and postcolonialism, familiar in literary studies,have diverged from and converged with globalization studies; andhow industries to do with the circulation of literature arebecoming globalized.
This book is intended for university-level students andteachers, researchers, and other informed readers with an interestin the above issues, and serves as both a survey of the field andan intervention within it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Suman

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University.