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Globalization and the humanities / edited by David Leiwei Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization--Social aspects--Congresses.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Political aspects--Congresses.
- Humanities--Congresses.
- Humanities.
- Information technology--Social aspects--Congresses.
- Information technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Globalization and the Humanities; 1 Turn to the Planet: Literature, Diversity, and Totality; 2 Is Globalization Good for Women?; 3 Globalization, Desire, and the Politics of Representation; 4 Globalization and the Postcolonial Condition; 5 Latin, Latino, American: Split States and Global Imaginaries; 6 Doing Cultural Studies inside APEC: Literature, Cultural Identity, and Global/Local Dynamics in the American Pacific; 7 (The) Nation-State Matters: Comparing Multiculturalism(s) in an Age of Globalization
- 8 The Growth of Internet Communities inTaiwan and the Marginalization of the Public Sphere9 The Internet in China:Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions; 10 Home Pages: Immigrant Subjectivity in Cyberspace; 11 Very Busy Just Now: Globalization and Harriedness in Ishiguro's The Unconsoled; 12 Concentricity, Teleology, and Reflexive Modernity in Edward Yang's Yi Yi; Afterword:Can We Judge the Humanities by Their Future as a Course of Study?; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- "This collection of essays originated in a University of Oregon symposium, The prospects and problems of globalization, in June of 2000"--Pref.
- Originally published as a special issue of Comparative Literature, v. 53, no. 4, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70433-8
- 9786612704338
- 988-220-145-8
- OCLC:
- 652855265
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