Search Results - Globalization

Musicians in Transit : Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music / by Karush, Matthew B. (Matthew Benjamin), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Black in Buenos Aires : Oscar Alemán and the transnational history of swing -- Argentines into Latins : the jazz histories of Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri -- Cosmopolitan tango : Astor Piazzolla at home and abroad -- The sound of Latin America : Sandro and the invention of balada -- Indigenous Argentina and revolutionary Latin America : Mercedes Sosa and the multiple meanings of folk music -- The music of globalization : Gustavo Santaolalla and the production of rock Latino.…”
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Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters -- Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination -- "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism -- Global America and the logics of vision -- America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies -- Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life -- "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James -- Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati -- Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.…”
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Mo Yan in context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller / Angelica Duran and Yuhan Huang -- A mutually rewarding yet uneasy and sometimes fragile relationship between author and translator / Howard Goldblatt -- The Censorship of Mo Yans The Garlic Ballads / Thomas Chen -- Representations of China and Japan in Mo Yans, Hayashis and Naruse's texts / Noriko J. …”
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Incomparable Poetry : An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008 and Irish Literature by Kiely, Robert

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Útrásarvíkingar! : The Literature of the Icelandic Financial Crisis (2008–2014) / by Hall, Alaric

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Exiles in the City : Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…The devastation of language under the dictatorship of the public realm : reading global American with Hannah Arendt --…”
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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

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Chaos Bound : Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science / by Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…8 The Politics of Chaos: Local Knowledge versus Global Theory --…”
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Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature : Literary and Cultural Essays /

“…Global Latin/o Americas…”
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War Pictures : Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 / by Puckett, Kent

“…World War II: the global, human, and ethical dimension ;…”
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A Body of Individuals : The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction / by Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…What ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise -- "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark -- Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman -- Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.…”
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Realism's Empire : Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel / by Baker, Geoffrey, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Economies of romance and history in 'Phineas Finn' -- Mapping and unmapping 'Phineas Finn' and 'Phineas redux' -- Global London and 'The way we live now' -- Part III. …”
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Sounds of the Underground : A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music / by Graham, Stephen (Musicologist)

Table of Contents: “…The Music and Musicians; 3. Global and Local Underground/Fringe Scenes; Part II-The Political and Cultural Underground; 4. …”
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Empire and Environment : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific /

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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 /

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In the Lurch : Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation / by Claycomb, Ryan M., 1974-

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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

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First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations : A Bilingual Edition and Commentary / by Kahn, Lily

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Shakespeare and Canada : Remembrance of Ourselves by Brisset, Annie

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Writing Pirates : Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China / by Wang, Yuanfei

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