Global Literature and Gender av Jenni Ramone

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<p>Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, <i>Global Literature and Gender</i> uses postcolonial theories alongside theories of space and place, theories of globalization, and reference to the Posthuman and the Anthropocene as competing narratives of the contemporary.</p><p>This book argues for the ongoing but very current significance of gender as an organizing category, while also revealing the fluidity and boundary defying nature of gender in twenty-first-century literature. Divided into three sections, looking at femininity, masculinity, and transgender, Jenni Ramone:</p><ul><li>Examines globalization¿s uneasy relationship with theories which foreground gender and considers gender as a challenge to globalization;</li><li>Analyses embodied labour, global travel, trade, and tourism;</li><li>Discusses the ways in which globalization and masculinity are likewise at odds;</li><li>Considers a diverse range of themes and genres, including p