Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and Ethics of Global Culture Exchange (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848857636)

Globalization, it seems, either holds the promise of new horizons and new worlds, or trammels local cultures and produces uniformity. Here, Maria Koundoura strikes a singular path between these divergent views and maps the full terrain of our contemporary culture landscape. Reading world literature and engaging with contemporary critical methodologies, she explores what she calls transnational visions of language and culture, and analyses the politics of identity, representation and cultural expression. She thus presents a history of the aesthetic of our moment in modernity, and situates that moment in the economics of the global culture market and the ethics of cultural translation. Offering a model for addressing key questions of contemporary culture, identity and globalization, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in cultural and postcolonial studies, diaspora and globalization studies, as well as world literature.

Author: Maria Koundoura
ISBN-10: 1848857632
ISBN-13: 9781848857636
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d