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Globalization and the Humanities

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This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the...
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Price: £20.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date: 01 December 2003
Trim Size: 8.90 X 5.80 in
ISBN: 9789622096547
Format: Paperback
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"How can the humanities position itself as a political project in an era of globalization? Celebrations of difference, obsessions with subjectivity, and interdisciplinary hybridity seem no longer adequate to the task of assessing the present. In this time

"Li vividly captures the academic take on the globalization mystique, and claims it for mainstream liberalism. Here, in a nutshell, is that mixture of subjectivity and literariness that forms the peculiar image of postcolonial theory as it wrestles with w

"This volume of essays is a collective attempt to deal with globalization its manifestations and ramifications. It brings the phenomenon of globalization to the level of detailed specificity." -- Q. S Tong, Associate Professor of English, The University of
David Leiwei Li is the Collins Professor of the Humanities in the English Department at the University of Oregon.