This book provides an indispensable overview of Transnational Literature. It concisely describes the ways in which literature can be understood as being "transnational", explains why scholars have become so interested in the topic and discusses the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that have shaped its development.
Global Matters provides a concise, informative overview of theoretical, critical, and curricular issues driving the transnational turn in literary studies and how these issues have come to dominate contemporary global fiction as well.
Focusing on the clash between pragmatism and foundationalism, this book explores the implications of these debates for American cultural criticism since Emerson. Blending intellectual history with cultural critique, it aims to liberate American thought from its nineteenth-century constraints and address contemporary issues of legitimacy in modernity. The work provokes readers to reconsider the relevance of historical perspectives in shaping current cultural conversations.