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Post-National Arguments: Global Poetics

Volume 32, Number 2 (2007)

Poetics and the Politics of Globalization

Submitted
December 5, 2008
Published
2007-06-06

Abstract

The present-day implications of globalization for literary criticism and poetics are best ascertained by contrasting these with postmodernism as articulated by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, and Perry Anderson. In this light, globalization appears as but another periodizing term that does conceptual work. It is a highly rhetorical, anticipatory concept that offers a narrative of the future as much as the present, and it therefore rewards Marxist critique. Against the totalizing thrust of globalization, literature and poetics offer imaginative resources for the articulation of alternative futures to the neoliberal ones that globalization narratives hope to bring about.