Fictions of Globalization: Consumption, the Market and the Contemporary American

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The globalization debate has become a dominant question in many disciplines but has only tended to be covered within literary studies in the context of postcolonial literature. This book focuses on reading contemporary novels in relation to globalization.

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Interpreting recent American fiction in terms linked to the growing appreciation of culture's place in the globalization debate, this book offers an innovative, critical approach to the study of contemporary literature. Prompted by the contemporary American novel's preoccupation with consumerism and the market, this book considers the implications these texts raise for the analysis of globalization and suggests that they offer unique ways of knowing and understanding contemporary social and economic contexts. Far from simply reflecting existing realities, The Fictions of Globalization reads contemporary writing's focus on consumption and the market as the sign of a productive exchange between the forces of commercial coordination and the enduringly creative and expressive patterns of modern culture.

Author Biography

James Annesley is Lecturer in American Literature at Newcastle University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Culture Incorporated 2. Cash rules everything around me 3. Branding, Consumption and Identity 4. The Fictions of Globalization 5. Pure shores 6. Migrating GlobalizationNotesBibliography FilmographyDiscographyIndex

Review

'a thoughtful account of what happens to a nation's fiction when elements of that nation, via a neo-liberal hegemony, presume to project American values to the last corners of the earth.' - Richard Godden, Professor of American Literature, University of Sussexmentioned in Chronicle of Higher Education June 2006"...the work is true to the double meaning of its title, and presents interesting and exciting reading of both the mythology and cultural production of global consumer society."- Aliza Atik, The Rockly Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 61, No. 1/ Spring 2007 -- The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature

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The globalization debate has become a dominant question in manydisciplines but has only tended to be covered within literary studiesin the context of postcolonial literature. This book focuses on readingcontemporary novels in relation to globalization.

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Interpreting recent American fiction in terms linked to the growing appreciation of culture's place in the globalization debate, this book offers an innovative, critical approach to the study of contemporary literature. Prompted by the contemporary American novel's preoccupation with consumerism and the market, this book considers the implications these texts raise for the analysis of globalization and suggests that they offer unique ways of knowing and understanding contemporary social and economic contexts. Far from simply reflecting existing realities, The Fictions of Globalization reads contemporary writing's focus on consumption and the market as the sign of a productive exchange between the forces of commercial coordination and the enduringly creative and expressive patterns of modern culture.>

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"...the work is true to the double meaning of its title, and presents interesting and exciting reading of both the mythology and cultural production of global consumer society."- Aliza Atik, The Rockly Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 61, No. 1/ Spring 2007

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The globalization debate has become a dominant question in many disciplines but has only tended to be covered within literary studies in the context of postcolonial literature. This book focuses on reading contemporary novels in relation to globalization.

Details ISBN0826433162 Short Title FICTIONS OF GLOBALIZATION Series Continuum Literary Studies Language English ISBN-10 0826433162 ISBN-13 9780826433169 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Subtitle Consumption, the Market and the Contemporary American Novel Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 208 Illustrations black & white illustrations UK Release Date 2008-12-22 NZ Release Date 2008-12-22 Translated from English Author Dr James Annesley Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Edition Description NIPPOD Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-12-22 DEWEY 813.54093553 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2008-12-21 We've got this

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