Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures - Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such a prominent element in the contemporary cultural field, and the effects of this prevalence on the production, circulation and reception of cultural commodities in the context of globalization. At the intersection of globalization, diaspora, postcolonial and feminist studies in world literature, these essays engage critically with a wide variety of representative narratives taken from diverse cultural fields, including humanitarian fiction, multilingual poetry, painting, text-image art, performance art, film, documentary, and docu-poetry. The chapters included offer counter-readings that disrupt hegemonic representations of cultural identity within the contemporary, neoliberal and globalized landscape.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New Comparisons in World Literature
Release date:	2018
First published:	2017
Editors:	Belen Martin-Lucas • Andrea Ruthven
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	251
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-62132-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	3-319-62132-7
Barcode:	9783319621326

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