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World writing : poetics, ethics, globalization / edited by Mary Gallagher.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Series: Cultural spacesPublication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442689657
  • 144268965X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: World writing.DDC classification:
  • 809 22
  • 808.1 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1031 .W67 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Poetics, ethics, and globalization / Mary Gallagher -- Transnational languages in Glissant's 'tout-monde' / Celia Britton -- Relating (in theory) in a globalized world : between Levinas's ethics and Glissant's poetics / Mary Gallagher -- French theory / Julia Kristeva -- Redrawing the hexagon : the space of culture in Malraux and Blanchot / Douglas Smith -- Not your uncle : text, sex, and the globalized Moroccan author / Richard Serrano -- Rationaltiy, realism, and the poet(h)ic problem of otherness : J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello / David Palumbo-Liu -- Planetary longings : sitting in the light of the great solar TV / Mary Louise Pratt -- Reframing global/local poetics in the post-imperial Pacific meditations on 'displacement, ' indigeneity, and the misrecognitions of US area studies / Rob Wilson.
Summary: Following an introductory chapter by Mary Gallagher, which maps this conceptual terrain, the contributors investigate how globalization inflects the necessary relationship between poetics, culture, ethics, and politics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260).

Includes some text in French.

Poetics, ethics, and globalization / Mary Gallagher -- Transnational languages in Glissant's 'tout-monde' / Celia Britton -- Relating (in theory) in a globalized world : between Levinas's ethics and Glissant's poetics / Mary Gallagher -- French theory / Julia Kristeva -- Redrawing the hexagon : the space of culture in Malraux and Blanchot / Douglas Smith -- Not your uncle : text, sex, and the globalized Moroccan author / Richard Serrano -- Rationaltiy, realism, and the poet(h)ic problem of otherness : J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello / David Palumbo-Liu -- Planetary longings : sitting in the light of the great solar TV / Mary Louise Pratt -- Reframing global/local poetics in the post-imperial Pacific meditations on 'displacement, ' indigeneity, and the misrecognitions of US area studies / Rob Wilson.

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Following an introductory chapter by Mary Gallagher, which maps this conceptual terrain, the contributors investigate how globalization inflects the necessary relationship between poetics, culture, ethics, and politics.

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