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- Dwelling in American: Dissent, Empire, and Globalization
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Dartmouth College Press
- Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
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Globalization is not the Americanization of the world, argues John Muthyala. Rather, it is an uneven social, cultural, economic, and political process in which the policies and aspirations of powerful nation-states are entangled with the interests of other empires, nation-states, and communities. Dwelling in American: Dissent, Empire, and Globalization takes up a bold challenge, critiquing scholarship on American empire that views the United States as either an exceptional threat to the world or the only hope for the future. It does so in order to provincialize America, to understand it from outside the borders of nation and location, and from inside the global networks of trade, power, and culture. Using comparative frames of reference, the book makes its arguments by examining the work of a diverse range of writers including Arundhati Roy (War Talk, Power Politics), Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran), and Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat).
This is an original, complex, and often bracingly counterintuitive critique of the idea of American empire that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the complexities of globalization.
This is an original, complex, and often bracingly counterintuitive critique of the idea of American empire that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the complexities of globalization.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxii
- 1. Empire and Dissent
- pp. 1-32
- 3. Dissent on the Border: Arundhati Roy
- pp. 55-105
- Bibliography
- pp. 217-228
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611682502
Related ISBN(s)
9781611682489
MARC Record
OCLC
801408722
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-10
Language
English
Open Access
No