Global Literature: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives introduces both enduring and cutting-edge debates about literature from around the globe.
Readers are invited to explore the transnational elements of cultural production and reception, examining texts’ critical relationship with colonial history, resistance to neo-/colonialism, the persistent linguistic hegemony of European languages, identity and equality debates, environments, the body, and the digital age.
Across the series, key theoretical texts and literary examples are connected to cultural texts and political debates, presenting complex ideas and information in a clear, logical and accessible manner ideal for students.
By Jenni Ramone
December 31, 2024
Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories alongside theories of space and place, theories of globalization, and reference to the Posthuman and the Anthropocene as competing narratives of the ...
By Nadia Atia, Lindsey Moore
December 26, 2024
Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity and connections across Arab world contexts. Nadia Atia and Lindsey Moore draw on a substantial literary corpus, highlighting contemporary trends in what ...
By Matthew Whittle, Jade Munslow Ong
August 02, 2024
Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-capitalism, exploring how literature helps us to ...