ISBN:
0230600549
,
9780230608726
,
9781281844828
,
9780230600546
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 272 p)
,
ill
,
22 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Globalization Social aspects
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Globalization in literature
Abstract:
The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations.The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and the transformations of aesthetic practices
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Production; Part 1 Transnational Narratives; 1 "Most Overrated Western Virtue": The Politics of Knowledge in Zadie Smith's White Teeth; 2 Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge; 3 Comparing Emirati and Egyptian Narratives on Marriage, Sexuality, and the Body; Part 2 U.S. Immigration and Culture; 4 Third World Newsreel: Third Cinema Practice in the United States; 5 Defying the Taboo on the Study of Internalized Racial Oppression
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Poetry and Cultural Change: Charles Reznikoff7 Veneration and Violence: Pedagogical Forces in Chicana Literature and Visual Art; Part 3 Global and Domestic Economies; 8 Culture, Dislocation, and Citizenship; 9 Toward a Theorization of the U.S. "Prison Regime": White Supremacy, Bodily Immobilization, and the "Society Structured in Dominance"; 10 The Mechanics of Empowerment: Migrant Farmworker Advocacy; 11 Orientalism and the New Global: The Example of India; About the Authors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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