Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Michael K. Walonen is Assistant Professor of English at St Peter’s University, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Zusammenfassung This book takes a broad cross-cultural approach to analyzing the literature of our increasingly transnationalized world system, considering how its key constituent features and local-level manifestations have been thematized and imaginatively embraced by literary fiction produced from the perspective of the periphery of the capitalist world system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: World Literary Study and the Task of Approaching Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary Fiction 2: Globalizations of Yesterday and Today in the Indian Ocean Arena of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy 3: The Local and the Transnational in the Structural Adjustment Fiction of Sub-Saharan Africa 4: The Cultural Politics of Global Mobility in Neoliberal Brain Drain Fiction 5: Consumption, Desire, and Neo-Imperialism in the Tourism Fiction of the Global South 6: Transnational Interpersonal Communication in Virtual Contact Zone Fiction 7: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Creative Destruction in Global Cities Fiction 8: The Transnationalisms of Globalization’s Preterite and Elect in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 Conclusions Afterword: Teaching World Literature, Teaching Globalization

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Walonen
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.05.2018
• EAN: 9780815359517
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5951-7
• Pagine: 164
• Serie: Popular Culture and World Politics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000