This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship
between globalization studies and literature and literary studies,
and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the
manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works,
examines the relationship between globalization theory and literary
theory, and discusses the impact of globalization processes on the
production and reception of literary texts.

Suman Gupta argues that, while literature has registered
globalization processes in relevant ways, there has been a missed
articulation between globalization studies and literary studies.
Examples are given of some of the ways in which this slippage is
now being addressed and may be taken forward, taking up such themes
as the manner in which anti-globalization protests and world cities
have figured in literary works; the ways in which theories of
postmodernism and postcolonialism, familiar in literary studies,
have diverged from and converged with globalization studies; and
how industries to do with the circulation of literature are
becoming globalized.

This book is intended for university-level students and
teachers, researchers, and other informed readers with an interest
in the above issues, and serves as both a survey of the field and
an intervention within it.