Description: The globalization debate has become a dominant question in many disciplines but has only tended to be covered within literary studies in the context of postcolonial literature. This book focuses on reading contemporary novels in relation to globalization.
Review Quotes: '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