Globalization and Literature

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationshipbetween globalization studies and literature and literary studies,and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with themanner in which globalization is thematized in literary works,examines the relationship between globalization theory and literarytheory, and discusses the impact of globalization processes on theproduction and reception of literary texts. Suman Gupta argues that, while literature has registeredglobalization processes in relevant ways, there has been a missedarticulation between globalization studies and literary studies.Examples are given of some of the ways in which this slippage isnow being addressed and may be taken forward, taking up such themesas the manner in which anti-globalization protests and world citieshave figured in literary works; the ways in which theories ofpostmodernism and postcolonialism, familiar in literary studies,have diverged from and converged with globalization studies; andhow industries to do with the circulation of literature arebecoming globalized. This book is intended for university-level students andteachers, researchers, and other informed readers with an interestin the above issues, and serves as both a survey of the field andan intervention within it.