Globalization and Literature

di Suman Gupta (Autore)

John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2008

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the relationship between globalization theory and literary theory, and discusses the impact of globalization processes on the production and reception of literary texts. Suman Gupta argues that, while literature has registered globalization processes in relevant ways, there has been a missed articulation between globalization studies and literary studies. Examples are given of some of the ways in which this slippage is now being addressed and may be taken forward, taking up such themes as the manner in which anti-globalization protests and world cities have figured in literary works; the ways in which theories of postmodernism and postcolonialism, familiar in literary studies, have diverged from and converged with globalization studies; and how industries to do with the circulation of literature are becoming globalized. This book is intended for university-level students and teachers, researchers, and other informed readers with an interest in the above issues, and serves as both a survey of the field and an intervention within it.

• Autore: Suman Gupta
• Editore: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Collana: Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 200 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 318 gr.
• EAN: 9780745640242

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