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Fictions of America : narratives of global empire
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ISBN: 0415333849 9780415333849 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority establishes priority. This sense of globalisation has raised many questions for contemporary American Novelists, primarily the usefulness or redundancy of narrative and its potentially adaptive function. What are the right stories for such a broadband world? How do contemporary American novelists respond to issues such as the influence of the multinational corporation and its predecessors, human rights Imperialism, the literary work as a marketable commodity, translation as betrayal, data overload, and the implosion of the virtual into the biosphere? Is globalisation inevitable – or is it a fiction which fiction turns into reality? Fictions of America explores these questions and looks at the ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed globally, and how novelists have answered back to power with resistant fictions. Judie Newman examines a wide range of fiction from the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first century including the transnational adoption narrative, short story, historical novel, slave narrative, international bestseller and Western to illustrate her argument. Looking closely at authors such as Bharati Mukherjee, John Updike, Emily Prager, Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston, David Bradley, Peter Høeg, and Cormac McCarthy, Fictions of America provides a bold response to the crucial questions raised by globalisation.

Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide
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ISBN: 0313306885 Year: 2004 Publisher: Westport London Greenwood Press

Multicultural writers from antiquity to 1945 : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook
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ISBN: 0313306877 Year: 2002


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Emergent U.S. literatures : from multiculturalism to cosmopolitanism in the late twentieth century
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ISBN: 9781479873388 9781479893720 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York London New York University Press

Literature on the move
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ISBN: 9042011556 9789042011557 9789004484290 9004484299 Year: 2003 Volume: 68

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Literature on the Move formulates a new aesthetics for the altered conditions and challenges of the new century. The point of departure for examining a bordercrossing literature on the move is travel literature, from which the view opens up unto other spaces, dimensions and patterns of movement which will shape the literatures of the 21th Century. And these will become - one needs no prophetic gift to see - for a major part literatures with no fixed abode. Signposts of this journey through literature proposed by this book are texts by, among many others, Balzac, Barthes, Baudrillard, Borges, Calvino, Condé, Cohen, Diderot, Goethe, A.v. Humboldt, Kristeva, Reyes, Rodó or Stadler. This book will specially appeal to an audience interested by comparative literature, literary theory, and travel literature and will be of interest to anybody who delights in «literary journeys».

Towards a transcultural future : literature and human rights in a "Post"-colonial world
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ISBN: 9042017635 9004488804 Year: 2004 Volume: 76 8 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,


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"Also : Nazdar !" : aspekty textové vícejazycnosti
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ISBN: 802460602X Year: 2003 Volume: 142 Publisher: Praha : Univerzita Karlova [v Praze] [Praha] = Université Charles = Karlsuniversität [Prag] = Universitas Carolina Pragensis = Charles University,

Salman Rushdie's postcolonial metaphors : migration, translation, hybridity, blasphemy, and globalization
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ISBN: 0313313105 Year: 2001 Volume: 109 Publisher: Westport ; London : Greenwood press,

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