Literature and Globalization

Globalization has had a huge impact on thinking across the humanities, redefining the understanding of fields such as communication, culture, politics, and literature.

This groundbreaking Reader is the first to chart significant moments in the emergence of contemporary thinking about globalization and explore their significance for and impact on literary studies. The book's three sections look in turn at:

• an overview of globalization theory and influential works in the field
• the impact of globalization on literature and our understanding of the 'literary'
• how issues in globalization can be used to read specific literary texts.

Containing essays by leading critics including Arjun Appadurai, Jacques Derrida, Simon Gikandi, Ursula K. Heise, Graham Huggan, Franco Moretti, Bruce Robbins and Anna Tsing, this volume outlines the relationship between globalization and literature, offering a key sourcebook for and introduction to an exciting, emerging field.

This groundbreaking reader is the first to chart significant moments in the emergence of contemporary thinking about globalization and explore their significance for and impact on literary studies.

Introduction Section 1: Theorizing Globalization  Editors' Introduction  1. 'Time-space Compression and the Postmodern Condition' - David Harvey  2. 'The Globalising of Modernity' - Anthony Giddens  3. 'The Universalism-Particularism Issue' - Roland Robertson  4. 'Disjuncture and Difference'- Arjun Appadurai  5. 'Querying Globalization' - J.K Gibson-Graham  6. 'The Global Situation' - Anna Tsing  7. 'Modernity as history: post-revolutionary China, globalization and the question of modernity' - Arif Dirlik  8.  'Free Trade and Culture' - George Yúdice  9.  'Performative Discourse and Social Form'- Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan,  10. 'The Multitude Against Empire' - Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt  Section 2. Literature in the Discipline  Editors' Introduction  11. 'Conjectures on World Literature' - Franco Moretti  12. 'Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English' - Paul Jay  13. 'Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality' - Simon Gikandi  14. 'Globalization, Peace, and Cosmopolitanism' - Jacques Derrida  15. 'Turn to the Planet: Literature, Diversity, and Totality' - Masao Miyoshi  16. '"Untranslatable" Algeria: The Politics of Linguicide'- Emily Apter  Section 3: Literary Readings  Editors' Introduction  Environmentalism  17. 'Deterritorialization and Eco-Cosmopolitanism' - Ursula K. Heise  18. '"Greening" Postcolonialism: Ecocritical Perspectives' - Graham Huggan  19. 'Surfing the Second Wave: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide' - Pablo Mukerhjee  Money and Markets  20. 'Derrida's Debt to Milton Friedman.' - Michael Tratner  21. 'Giving and Receiving: Nurudin Farah's Gifts or the Postcolonial Logic of Third World Aid' - Tim Woods  22. 'Aesthetics of Globalization in Contemporary Fiction: The Function of the Fall of the Berlin Wall' - Padmaja Challakere  Technology and Cyber-cultures  23. 'eEmpires' - Rita Raley  24. 'Fear and Loathing in Globalization' - Fredric Jameson  25. 'Indians: the Globalized Woman on the Community Stage' - Katrin Sieg  Migration and Labour  26. 'The Sweatshop Sublime' - Bruce Robbins  27. 'The Hungry Ghost: IMF Policy, Capitalist Transformation and Laboring Bodies in Southeast Asia' -  Joseph Medley and Lorrayne A Carrol  28. 'East African Literature and the Politics of Global Reading' - Peter J. Kalliney  Worldliness and Cosmopolitanisms  29. '"We Are Not the World": Global Village, Universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange' - Sue-Im Lee  30. 'An Elegy for African Cosmopolitanism: Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow' - Neville Hoad  31. 'Movements and Protests' - Suman Gupta  Bibliography