Title Global matters : the transnational turn in literary studies / Paul Jay

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Globalization and the Study of Literature -- Difference, Multiculturalism, and the Globalizing of Literary Studies -- What Is Globalization? -- Economies, Cultures, and the Politics of Globalization -- Border Studies -- Globalization in Contemporary Literature -- Postâ€?Postcolonial Writing in the -- Postâ€?Postcolonial Writing in the Age of Globalization: THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN, MOTH SMOKE -- Globalization and Nationalism in Kiran Globalization and Nationalism in Kiran Desaiâ€?s THE INHERITANCE OF LOSSThe Cultural Politics of Development in Zakes Mdaâ€?s THE HEART OF REDNESS -- Multiculturalism and Identity in Zadie Smithâ€?s WHITE TEETH -- Transnational Masculinities in Junot DÃazâ€?s THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Summary "Global Matters is a lucid and extremely valuable synthesis of some of the trickiest and most interesting scholarship of the past twenty years. Judicious yet also pleasantly polemical, and anchored in refreshing readings of some much-read texts, it will be the object of heartfelt gratitude on the part of students and teachers alike."--Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University "In Global Matters, Paul Jay provides invaluable guidance to recent debates about globalization and illuminates the contemporary novel's vibrant transnationalism. This book lays the ground for exciting new developments in transnational literary scholarship."--Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics "Global Matters displays admirable clarity and fairness in its presentation of current debates about globalization and postcoloniality in relation to the transnational turn in literary studies. Paul Jay's book is timely and well conceived. It has two parts that mirror each other: the first presents an overview of cultural and literary theory dealing with transnationalism, and the second provides readings of selected texts to demonstrate the necessity of transnational approaches to literature."--Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies and Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Global Matters offers a thoughtful and balanced consideration of recent theories of globalization. Paul Jay's insistence that the long histories of colonialism shape contemporary global matters and that we cannot choose between the cultural and economic dimensions of globalization is especially welcome."--Ania Loomba, Catharine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania "Global Matters helps the reader make sense of some of the most exciting developments and complex disagreements in transnational literary and cultural studies over the past two decades. Paul Jay displays an admirable ability to synthesize complex ideas about transnationality and to show how they can enrich the study of literature."--Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University --Book Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism Comparative literature -- Commonwealth (English) and English Comparative literature -- English and Commonwealth (English) Comparative literature -- Commonwealth (English) and American Comparative literature -- American and Commonwealth (English) Transnationalism in literature. Globalization in literature. Multiculturalism in literature. Literature and globalization. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Commonwealth fiction (English) Globalization in literature Literature and globalization Multiculturalism in literature Transnationalism in literature Literatur Literaturwissenschaft Migrantenliteratur Globalisierung Bellettrie. Engels. Internationalisatie. Multiculturele samenlevingen. Globalisierung -- Motiv -- Literatur. Literatur -- Motiv -- Globalisierung. Literaturwissenschaft -- Globalisierung -- Geschichte 20. Jh. Globalisierung -- Literaturwissenschaft -- Geschichte 20. Jh. Literatur. Motiv. Globalisierung. Migrantenliteratur. Englisches Sprachgebiet Englisches Sprachgebiet. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801460357 0801460352

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