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Globalization and Literature

ISBN: 978-0-745-64023-5

December 2008

Polity

200 pages

Description
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.

About the Author
Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University.
Features

  • State of the art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies.
  • The first book length treatment of this cutting edge area, pitched for undergraduate students.
  • Covers a range of themes at the intersection of globalization and literature, from anti-globalization protests and world cities in literary works to the changing concepts of texts and text editing in the wake of digitisation.
  • Serves both as a survey of this emergent field and an intervention within it.