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Informationen zum Autor Virginia L. Lewis is Assistant Professor of German at Northern State University. Klappentext Globalizing the Peasant examines literary narratives from across the globe as an "affective archive" of crucial information regarding the human experience of globalization over the last 150 years. Her revealing lens is focused on agrarian populations whose deep emotional and spiritual attachment to the land has been irrevocably disrupted by the globalization processes of enclosure, commodification, and industrialization. In a wide-ranging corpus of texts from what Lewis terms "Global Land Literature, " she uncovers a well-spring of evidence concerning the harmful impact of globalization on human efforts to secure a happy existence and derive meaning and value from life. At the same time, she reveals that these very narratives are a crucial resource for ways to counteract the often destructive tendencies of global commercialization. Globalizing the Peasant thus underscores the abiding relevance of literature as an indispensable guide for ethical conduct in the new millennium. Zusammenfassung Examines literary narratives from across the globe as an affective archive of crucial information regarding the human experience of globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Globalization and Global Literature Chapter 2 Prologue: The Innocence of the Commons Versus the Experience of Enclosures Chapter 3 Being Without: The Condition of Landlessness Chapter 4 When Humans Belong to the Land: The Problem of Tenant Farming Chapter 5 Land as Commodity and the Unmaking of Place Chapter 6 Market Meets Morality-The Place of Emplacement Chapter 7 Common Land Access-Uncommon Text Chapter 8 Illegal Access to Land: Squatting and the Troubled Hope for Justice Chapter 9 Landlessness Revisited: The Tragedy of Globalization Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Lessons of Land Literature
