Global migration, social change, and cultural transformation /
edited by Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia Ploesch.
- First edition.
- viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Most overrated Western virtue" : the politics of knowledge in Zadie Smith's White teeth / Grace Kyungwon Hong -- Gender, nation, and globalization in Monsoon wedding and Dilwale dulhania le jayenge / Jenny Sharpe -- Comparing Emirati and Egyptian narratives on marriage, sexuality, and the body / Frances S. Hasso -- Third world newsreel : third cinema practice in the United States / Cynthia Young -- Defying the taboo on the study of internalized racial oppression / Karen D. Pyke -- Poetry and cultural change : Charles Reznikoff / Steven Gould Axelrod -- Veneration and violence : pedagogical forces in Chicana literature and visual art / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- Culture, dislocation, and citizenship / Toby Miller -- Toward a theorization of the U.S. "prison regime" : white supremacy, bodily immobilization, and the "society structured in dominance" / Dylan Rodriguez -- The mechanics of empowerment : migrant farmworker advocacy / Margaret Gray -- Orientalism and the new global : the example of India / Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar.
"The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating "globalization" from strictly economic considerations. The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and the transformations of aesthetic practices."--Publisher description.
0230600549 9780230600546
2007013676
Globalization--Social aspects. Globalization in literature Emigration and immigration.