Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender 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.
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:
- Examines globalization-s uneasy relationship with theories which foreground gender and considers gender as a challenge to globalization;
- Analyses embodied labour, global travel, trade, and tourism;
- Discusses the ways in which globalization and masculinity are likewise at odds;
- Considers a diverse range of themes and genres, including p
