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Cet essai présente les études transaréales à partir d’un vaste corpus littéraire principalement francophone et hispanophone. Envisagées selon une perspective transhistorique et transculturelle, les littératures abordées figurent les modalités plurielles de notre existence à l’échelle planétaire.

Littérature et mondialisation. --- Mondialisation --- Histoire.

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The term "globalization" can be seen as "a double-edged sword" with positive and negative effects on a society's traditional cultural practices. While heralding the triumph of modernity over tradition, it tends to threaten local values.The 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association addressed globalization from the perspective of African and African-heritage writers. The papers selected for this anthology provide a representative overview of globalization's cultural dynamics as explored by our keynote speakers and by scholars of African literature attending the conference from around the world.The interview with the late South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus serves as a point of departure in the discussion of the social, linguistic, economic, and political changes that globalization has brought to Africa. Cultural alterations as perceived by Africans and African descendants are examined within colonial and postcolonial contexts in sections that address cultural conflict, the politics of language, gender, feminism, cultural hybridity, and immigrant identity.The conference keynote speakers--author Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Guinean novelist Tierno Monénembo, Ivorian writer Régina Yaou, and Afro-Dominican performance artist Josefina Báez--describe the positive and negative attributes of globalization; however, each, in his or her own way, appreciates how it brings cultures into contact, producing many kinds of cultural and ethnic blending as well as infinite possibilities for mutual enrichment.

African literature --- Literature and globalization --- Littérature africaine. --- Littérature et mondialisation

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This book is a compilation of articles dealing with linguistic and literary concerns relating to the global production and consumption of literature in English, and global instruction and education in the English language. The umbrella theme of the book is “English Language and Literature in a Globalized World” or “The Global Appropriation and hybridization of English”. The contributing authors are international scholars and creative writers from different parts of the world who offer unique perspectives on the ways in which the English language and English literature are constantly developing and changing in a postcolonial global world. They are mostly professors of English who have cross-cultural teaching experiences and who live or have lived and worked in both Anglophone and non-Anglophone countries. To many of them English is their dominant language, but not the mother tongue. All of them are bilingual or even trilingual. Thus their scholarly investigations are flavoured with their personal experiences or “adventures” with the language and its users. Their unique visions reveal a process of adoption, adaptation, reinvention and appropriation of both the language and its literature in a multi-national, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual community of a world where English has become the most recognizable sign of globalization. This book will appeal to all scholars and practitioners of English language and literature, particularly those interested in colonial and postcolonial studies, modern and post-modern studies, ethnic and minority studies, feminist studies, cross-cultural studies, linguistics, semantics, ESP and curriculum development.

Littérature et mondialisation. --- Littérature anglophone --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Anglais (langue) --- Histoire et critique. --- Variation linguistique --- English language --- Globalization. --- Germanic languages

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Literature and globalization --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Literature and globalization. --- Globalization in literature. --- Globalization. --- Literature - History and criticism --- Littérature et mondialisation --- Mondialisation --- Dans la littérature

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This book advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the 'Age of Silver, ' this study emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms in places such as China, Japan, Spain, and England. The main texts it addresses include The Plum in the Golden Vase (anonymous, China, late sixteenth century), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Spain, 1605 and 1615), The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku, Japan, 1682), and Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, England, 1719). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. On a broader level, it challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of 'world literature' and historical transcultural relations.

Économie politique et littérature --- Littérature et mondialisation --- Littérature comparée --- Réalisme (littérature) --- Asiatique et occidentale --- Xiaoxiaosheng. --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de --- Ihara, Saikaku --- Defoe, Daniel