Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780815359517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 164 str.

Michael Walonen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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