Global matters : the transnational turn in literary studies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jay, Paul, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Commonwealth fiction (English) > History and criticism. Comparative literature > Commonwealth (English) and English. Comparative literature > English and Commonwealth (English) Comparative literature > Commonwealth (English) and American. Comparative literature > American and Commonwealth (English) Transnationalism in literature. Globalization in literature. Multiculturalism in literature. Literature and globalization.

Table of Contents:

Difference, multiculturalism, and the globalizing of literary studies
What is globalization?
Economies, cultures, and the politics of globalization
Border studies : remapping the locations of literary study
Post-postcolonial writing in the age of globalization : The god of small things, Red earth and pouring rain, Moth smoke
Globalization and nationalism in Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss
The cultural politics of development in Zakes Mda's The heart of redness
Multiculturalism and identity in Zadie Smith's White teeth
Transnational masculinities in Junot Díaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao.