...Philip Tsang Abstract The article situates David Mitchell's imagination of planetary interconnectedness in the historical development of global English. It argues that Cloud Atlas projects a denationalized, centrifugal vision of the world, only to entrench it in a cohesive, centripetal anglophone...

... audience. Vernacular anglophone realism cultivates a sense of natality without losing the author's linguistic and geopolitical security in the English language, therefore allowing the global South writer to address both Western and non-Western audiences. While this might seem like a welcome development—one...

... and without borders” (9). Thus he argues that European literatures control the borders of what is properly seen as literature to keep out literatures of the global South as inferior imitations of the European model. Forget English! makes a significant intervention in the field of comparative literature...

...-century novel's apparent commitment to an autoethnographic enterprise aimed at writing into existence a delimited and distinctive culture for the English or even the British people at a time when there was every encouragement for them to regard their way of life as exhausted in identification...

...Bruce Robbins “Too Much Information” takes issue with critic James Wood's charge that “information” plays a disproportionate and aesthetically unfortunate role in many of the larger and more ambitious novels recently published in English. It makes a case for the value of information. It does so...

... (1859), known for its famous statement of realist principles and its depiction of heroic common people set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Though the novel takes place in the English countryside, the narrator invokes a presumed audience who differ profoundly from the novel's peasant...

...Ian Duncan The publication of English translations of Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1971) and The Historical Novel (1962) inaugurated a major development in North American criticism of the past half century: the turn to Continental theory for an identification of the novel...

...Jed Esty In English and comparative literature, the question of realism has reemerged in the last fifteen years as vital to readers and writers of the global novel. A realist turn, so-called, implies a shift in tastes, canons, and markets; it also entails a heightened form of disciplinary attention...

... to define both the production and consumption of English literature on a global scale in the decades to follow. While the importance of transnational exchange in the development of modernism has been well-argued by recent critical approaches, Marx's argument might go a longer way in explaining...

.... Giving up authenticity as the marker of literary value seems especially valuable, as does the welcome emphasis on the labile circuits of transnational exchange and dialogue. Because Walkowitz insists on the powerful relation between English-language writing and globalization, arguing for the need...

... availability of contemporary writing, along with the emergence of new critical platforms, has arguably allowed readers to more easily imagine themselves as members of a global audience. For example, a quick Google search discovers an online review of Smith's story in The Dawn , the largest English-language...

..., signaled by the separation of MLA forums, even as both terms seem to be used interchangeably in both scholarship and job market ads. It is quietly, and perhaps hastily, assumed institutionally that the global Anglophone has entirely displaced the postcolonial in English literary studies. This is what...

... is of course most strenuously tested. One can see how a novel in a national language might create the conceptual preconditions for imagining nationhood, but can this process ever be projected globally? Ghostwritten, after all, is written in English: the “Esperanto” of cinema is sadly not available...

...-as-cosmopolis” into the present day (215). MARX | GLOBAL LONDON 137 Agathocleous departs from the work of critics including Ian Baucom and, earlier, Raymond Williams, who emphasized the threat that London posed to English identity. Although...

... of people gathering around a microphone to discuss works of literature in tandem with events of the day. Morse traces the impact of these radio discussions on the formal qualities of global Anglophone literature, writers working out their relationship to literature and the English language on air...

... Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India . Durham : Duke UP , 2003 . Mishra Pankaj . “ Narendra Modi and the New Face of India .” Guardian 16 May 2014 . Mongia Padmini . “ Speaking American: Popular Indian Fiction in English .” Comparative American Studies...

... that the figure of Crusoe is so iconic in Coetzee's uni- verse. Now that apartheid's Manichean logic seems to have become common currency in Europe and the global English-speaking world, notably in its con- structions of Islam, the basic architecture of Coetzee's writing seems to speak powerfully...

... of cosmopolitan resistance to what Nancy terms glomicity—globalization’s “heapage” of civilization into “strictly segregated, fiercely competitive factions” (93, 94). The value of Schoene’s close reading strategy becomes evident when he posits Kelman’s representations of broken, nonnative English...

... and thoroughly grounded in existing scholarship. Her first four chapters draw on Gerald Newman's underrated history of English nationalism to argue for the centrality of cosmopolitanism to Britain's self-conceptions, adapting Newman's formulations for the more consciously global and specifically materialist...

... of the World's Important Markets’: The Globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s.” Contemporary Hollywood Cinema . Ed. Neale Steve and Smith Murray. London: Routledge, 1998 . 58 –73. “Becoming Jane.” Box Office Essentials. Ken Eisen, Shadow Distribution. < file:///Users/english/Library/Mail_Downloads...