| Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures: Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Martín-Lucas, Belén (Editor), Ruthven, Andrea (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319872400 ISBN-13: 9783319872407 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $103.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306 |
| Series: New Comparisons in World Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.71 lbs) 251 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |