Global matters
Subtitle: the transnational turn in literary studies
By: Paul Jay.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780801449000; 9780801476075
Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- Commonwealth (English) and English; Literature, Comparative -- English and Commonwealth (English); Literature, Comparative -- Commonwealth (English) and American; Literature, Comparative -- American and Commonwealth (English); Transnationalism in literature; Globalization in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Literature and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Difference, multiculturalism, and the globalizing of literary studies; title: What is globalization?; title: Economies, cultures, and the politics of globalization; title: Border studies : remapping the locations of literary study; title: Postpostcolonial writing in the age of globalization : The god of small things, Red earth and pouring rain, Moth smoke; title: Globalization and nationalism in Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss; title: The cultural politics of development in Zakes Mda's The heart of redness; title: Multiculturalism and identity in Zadie Smith's White teeth; title: Transnational masculinities in Junot Díaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao.