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- Timely, well researched and broad in scope with examples from a variety of geographical contexts
- Addresses the contemporary concerns of the global-local as articulated in literature and language
- Includes original contributions from renowned academics in the areas of literature and language
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Exploring Glocal Discourse
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Exploring Glocal Literature
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Back Matter
About this book
This collection of critical essays investigates the intersections of the global and local in literature and language. Exploring the connections that exist between global forms of knowledge and their local, regional applications, this volume explores multiple ways in which literature is influenced, and in turn, influences, movements and events across the world and how these are articulated in various genres of world literature, including the resultant challenges to translation. This book also explores the way in which languages, especially English, transform and continue to be reinvented in its use across the world. Using perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and semiotics, this volume focuses on diasporic literature, travel literature, and literature in translation from different parts of the world to study the ways in which languages change and grow as they are sought to be ‘owned’ by the communities which use them in different contexts. Emphasizing on interdisciplinary studies and methodologies, this collection centralizes both research that theorizes the links between the local and the global and that which shows, through practical evidence, how the local and global interact in new and challenging ways.
Editors and Affiliations
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Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Sandhya Rao Mehta
About the editor
Sandhya Rao Mehta is presently with the Department of English Language and Literature at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman. She has published widely in the fields of English Language, with particular focus on English Language teaching (ELT) and critical thinking in language teaching. She has also worked on Diaspora Studies, gendered migration and postcolonial fiction, focusing on literature of the Indian diaspora. She is the co-editor of Language Studies: Stretching the Boundaries and editor of Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language and Literature in a Glocal World
Editors: Sandhya Rao Mehta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8467-6Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4160-1Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8468-3Published: 29 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 240
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Language and Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature