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The essays in this volume examine the tensions between two major political and intellectual structures: the global and the postcolonial, charting the ways in which such tensions are constitutive of changing power relations between the individual, the nation-state and global forces. Contributors ask how postcolonialism, with its emphasis on cultural difference and diversity, can respond to the new, neo-imperialist imperatives of globalization. Signalling the discursive grounds for debate is the fissures/fusions title, suggesting alternative categorizations of stereotypes like 'global homogenization' and 'postcolonial resistance'. Interwoven are considerations of the intellectual or writer's position today. Literary texts from a wide range of countries are analysed for their resistance to global hegemony and for representations of manipulative power structures, in order to highlight issues such as environmental loss, nationality, migrancy, and marginality. Specific topics covered include 'westernizing' the Indian academy, ecotourism and the new media of computer technology, the corporatization of creativity in 're-branding' New Zealand (including film), and the hybrid forms of Latin American photography. Writers discussed include Chinua Achebe, Samuel Beckett, Hafid Bouazza, Bei Dao, Mahmoud Darwish, Witi Ihimaera, James Joyce, Yann Martel, Rohinton Mistry, Ellen Ombre, Michael Ondaatje, George Orwell, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and Edward Said. Different essays stress the hegemony of global networks; the technological revolution's revitalizing of niche marketing while marginalizing postcolonial resistance; the implications of the internationalization of culture for the indigene; and the potential of cultural hybridity to collapse cultural hierarchies.

Globalization in literature. --- Globalization --- Globalization. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects. --- Postcolonialisme --- GLOBALISATION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- GLOBALISATION --- Dans la littérature --- PHILOSOPHIE

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Globalisation dans la littérature --- Globalisering in de literatuur --- Globalization in literature --- Political fiction, American --- American fiction --- Politics and literature --- Globalization in literature. --- American fiction. --- Globalization. --- Literature. --- Political fiction, American. --- Politics and literature. --- Englisch. --- Globalisierung. --- Literatur. --- Politik. --- Roman. --- History and criticism. --- 2000-2099. --- United States. --- USA. --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- American literature --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Political fiction [American ] --- 21st century --- United States

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In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues. Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, putting together writers who might not normally inhabit the same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational not so much as a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing. In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language as well as our pathways through the world. From Conrad's waterways of the earth, to Sebald's endless horizons of connection and accountability, to Gordimer's and Coetzee's meditations on the key sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world. At the heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being and seeing.

82.04 --- 820-3 "19" --- Literaire thema's --- Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- English fiction --- Globalization in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- International relations in literature. --- Transnationalism in literature. --- Kolonialisme. --- Nationale identiteit. --- Postkolonialisme. --- Romans. --- History and criticism. --- 820-3 "19" Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Transnationalisme --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- GLOBALISATION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- RUSHDIE (SALMAN), 1947 --- -SEBALD (WINFRIEG GEORG), 1944-2001 --- COETZEE (JOHN MAXWELL), 1940 --- -GORDIMER (NADINE), 1923 --- -PHILLIPS (CARYL), 1958 --- -RHYS (JEAN), 1894-1979 --- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) --- Dans la littérature --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- Critique et interprétation