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by Paul Jay


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As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature is being created by a remarkably transnational, multicultural group of writers exploring many of the same concerns, including the intersecting effects of colonialism, decolonization, migration, and globalization.

Paul Jay surveys these developments, highlighting key debates within literary and cultural studies about the impact of globalization over the past two decades. Global Matters provides a concise, informative overview of theoretical, critical, and curricular issues driving the transnational turn in literary studies and how these issues have come to dominate contemporary global fiction as well. Through close, imaginative readings Jay analyzes the intersecting histories of colonialism, decolonization, and globalization engaged by an array of texts from Africa, Europe, South Asia, and the Americas, including Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Junot Daz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness.

A timely intervention in the most exciting debates within literary studies, Global Matters is a comprehensive guide to the transnational nature of Anglophone literature today and its relationship to the globalization of Western culture.

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  • Title Global Matters
  • Author Paul Jay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2010-09-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801476075 / 0801476070
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010005687
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2011, Page 234

About the author

Paul Jay is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author most recently of Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism. Visit his blog for this book at jayglobalmatters.weebly.com.

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