Fictions of Globalization: Consumption, the Market and the Contemporary American Novel

by James Annesley

Overview

Interpreting recent American fiction in terms linked to the growing appreciation of culture's place in the globalization debate, this book offers an innovative, critical approach to the study of contemporary literature.
Prompted by the contemporary American novel's preoccupation with consumerism and the market, this book considers the implications these texts raise for the analysis of globalization and suggests that they offer unique ways of knowing and understanding contemporary social and economic contexts. Far from simply reflecting existing realities, The Fictions of Globalization reads contemporary writing's focus on consumption and the market as the sign of a productive exchange between the forces of commercial coordination and the enduringly creative and expressive patterns of modern culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826433169
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Series:	Continuum Literary Studies
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

James Annesley is Lecturer in American Literature at Newcastle University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Culture Incorporated 2. Cash rules everything around me 3. Branding, Consumption and Identity 4. The Fictions of Globalization 5. Pure shores 6. Migrating GlobalizationNotesBibliography FilmographyDiscographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

."..the work is true to the double meaning of its title, and presents interesting and exciting reading of both the mythology and cultural production of global consumer society."- Aliza Atik, The Rockly Mountain Review of Language and Literature, "Vol. 61, No. 1/ Spring 2007--Sanford Lakoff

'a thoughtful account of what happens to a nation's fiction when elements of that nation, via a neo-liberal hegemony, presume to project American values to the last corners of the earth.' - Richard Godden, Professor of American Literature, University of Sussex

mentioned in Chronicle of Higher Education June 2006

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