Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

1. Introduction: Interrogating the Production, Circulation and Reception of ‘Difference’ in Globalized Cultures
Belén Martín-Lucas, Andrea Ruthven

Part I. Reading Methodologies

2. Subversive Translation and Lexical Empathy: Pedagogies of Cortesia and Transnational Multilingual Poetics
Merlinda Bobis

3. The Production and Productivity of Humanitarian Fiction: Postcolonial Shame and Neocolonial Crises
David Callahan

4. Still Devouring Frida Kahlo: Psychobiography versus Postcolonial and Disability Readings
Zoë Brigley Thompson

5. The World Republic of Readers
James Procter

Part II. Counternarratives of the Metropolis

6. Success and the City: Working in the World’s Capital in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Darragh Patrick Hall

7. Borderless (Alien) Nations: Disposable Bodies and Biopolitical Effacement in Min Sook Lee’s Docu-Poem
Libe García Zarranz

8. Public Art in the Production of a Global City: Jamie Hilder’s Clashing Versions of Vancouver
John Havelda

9. A Nation Goes Adrift: Subaltern Inter-Identity in José Saramago’s The Stone Raft

Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia

Part III. Disruptive Genders

10. ‘Something Terrible Happened’: Spectacles of Gendered Violence and Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun

Sorcha Gunne

11. Alternative Modernities and Othered Masculinities in Mira Nair’s The Namesake

E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz

12. (Un)Veiling Women’s Bodies: Transnational Feminisms in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero

Aida Rosende-Pérez

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature, Global/International Culture