Imagining neoliberal globalization in contemporary world fiction / Michael K. Walonen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

World literary study and the task of approaching neoliberal globalization in contemporary fiction -- Globalizations of yesterday and today in the Indian Ocean arena of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy -- The local and the transnational in the structural adjustment fiction of Sub-Saharan Africa -- The cultural politics of global mobility in neoliberal brain drain fiction -- Consumption, desire, and neo-imperialism in the tourism fiction of the global South -- Transnational interpersonal communication in virtual contact zone fiction -- Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and creative destruction in global cities fiction -- The transnationalisms of globalization's preterite and elect in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 -- Afterword : teaching world literature, teaching globalization.