Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and
literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of
globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both
close reading and world history, both literary criticism and
political theory, the book is a timely intervention in the debates
about world, postcolonial, and transnational literature as they
have been intensified by critical globalization studies,
world-systems analysis, Bourdieuan sociology, and cosmopolitanism
studies. It contends that globalization, far from starting in
recent decades, has a long and complex history, not unlike the
history of literature itself, meaning that when we speak of
globalization and literature, we in effect invoke the entire
history of literature. Essays examine literary genres in relation
to broader historical processes, connecting the present state of
globalization to such key world-historic events as the early modern
geographical and scientific explorations, the Enlightenment, the
expansions of modernity in the long nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, postmodernity and postcoloniality, and contemporary
counter-hegemonic movements. The book offers innovative readings of
the pastoral from Saint-Pierre to Carpentier; the novel in Kant and
Wieland, and in Diderot and Marx; travel writing from Verne to
Cortazar; sports writing in James and Kahn; entrelacement in
Bolano, Ghosh, and Soderbergh; and also the Mozambican ghost story,
Indian genre fiction, "fake" autobiographies, Sephardic "language
memoirs," the postcolonial Gothic, Irish "chick lit," and
counter-hegemonic novels. Making important theoretical
contributions to a renewed discussion about genre, especially
genres of narrative fiction, this volume addresses global studies,
the history of the novel, and debates over periodization and
nationalism in literary history.
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