1st Edition
Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction
1: World Literary Study and the Task of Approaching Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary Fiction 2: Globalizations of Yesterday and Today in the Indian Ocean Arena of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy 3: The Local and the Transnational in the Structural Adjustment Fiction of Sub-Saharan Africa 4: The Cultural Politics of Global Mobility in Neoliberal Brain Drain Fiction 5: Consumption, Desire, and Neo-Imperialism in the Tourism Fiction of the Global South 6: Transnational Interpersonal Communication in Virtual Contact Zone Fiction 7: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Creative Destruction in Global Cities Fiction 8: The Transnationalisms of Globalization’s Preterite and Elect in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 Conclusions Afterword: Teaching World Literature, Teaching Globalization
Biography
Michael K. Walonen is Assistant Professor of English at St Peter’s University, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
