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Nothing since the rise of theory in the 1970s has reshaped literary studies more dramatically than the embrace of a new transnationalism. This work is characterized both by renewed attention to the historical mobility of peoples and cultures, and by analyses of the radically uneven effects of economic and cultural globalization in our own time. The transnational turn in literary studies has remapped the geography of work in the humanities and social sciences, transforming theoretical vocabularies and reshaping the locations of critical work across virtually every field of literary and cultural studies. Global Matters explains the role of social movements and contemporary theory in complicating nationalist paradigms for organizing literary studies, explores how globalization has transformed both the production and study of English literature, reviews and intervenes in key debates about the history and nature of globalization and its economic and cultural effects, examines how globalization theory has informed transnational work in literary criticism and theory, and provides analyses of representative literary texts from Africa, Europe, South Asia, and the Americas.

Designed for course adoption in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies provides a comprehensive road map to critical debates and issues central to contemporary literary studies. Pre-order here.

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