Narratives of difference in globalized cultures : reading transnational cultural commodities /: reading transnational cultural commodities. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Belén Martín-Lucas, Andrea Ruthven.
• Editors: Martín Lucas, María Belén; Ruthven, Andrea
• Contents: Contributors.- Introduction: Interrogating the Production, Circulation and Reception of 'Difference' in Globalized Cultures;Belén Martín-Lucas and Andrea Ruthven.- Subversive Translation and Lexical Empathy: Pedagogies ofCortesiaand Transnational Multilingual Poetics; Merlinda Bobis.-The Production and Productivity of Humanitarian Fiction: Postcolonial Shame and Neocolonial Crises;David Callahan.-Still Devouring Frida Kahlo: Psychobiography versus Postcolonial and Disability Readings;Zoë Brigley Thompson.-The World Republic of Readers;James Procter.-Success and the City: Working in the World's Capital in Monica Ali'sBrick Lane;Darragh Patrick Hall.-Borderless (Alien)Nations: Disposable Bodies and Biopolitical Effacement in Min Sook Lee's Docu-Poem;Libe García Zarranz.-Public Art in the Production of a Global City: Jamie Hilder's Clashing Versions of Vancouver;John Havelda.-A Nation Goes Adrift: Subaltern Inter-Identity in José Saramago'sThe Stone Raft;Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia.-'Something Terrible Happened': Spectacles of Gendered Violence and Nadine Gordimer'sThe House Gun;Sorcha Gunne.-Alternative Modernities and Othered Masculinities in Mira Nair'sThe Namesake;E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz.-(Un)Veiling Women's Bodies: Transnational Feminisms in Emer Martin'sBaby Zero;Aida Rosende Pérez.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.93355; Comparative literature; Culture; Transnationalism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319621333
• Related ISBNs: 9783319621326
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