Literature and the Experience of Globalization: Texts Without Borders

By Svend Erik Larsen

Book Overview

How does literature represent, challenge and help us understand our experience of globalization? Taking literary globalization studies beyond its traditional political focus, Literature and the Experience of Globalization explores how writers from Shakespeare through Goethe to Isak Dinesen, J.M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh and Bruce Chatwin engage with the human dimensions of globalization. Through a wide range of insightful close readings, Svend Erik Larsen brings contemporary world literature approaches to bear on cross-cultural experiences of migration and travel, translation, memory, history and embodied knowledge. In doing so, this important intervention demonstrates how literature becomes an essential site for understanding the ways in which globalization has become an integral part of everyday experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350007560
• ISBN13: 9781350007567
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"