Global/Local

“Global/Local strikes an impressive balance between theoretical explorations of how the global shapes the local and more particularized treatments of the disorientation and transformative impact of migrants as registered in cultural forms and expressions.” - American Literary History

“[I]n essay after essay [one finds] a patient attentiveness to the complexities of cultural identity and exchange, and an equally impressive determination to expose racism and exploitation, however well disguised they might be.” - , Canadian Literature

“A timely volume addressing contemporary issues concerning cultural production, Global/Local takes up the challenge of explaining forces of globalism and localism in a variety of cultural settings. . . . Few other works have ventured into what is a hotly debated terrain today, having addressed partial aspects, without the all-encompassing sweep of this volume. The essays are wide ranging. . . . The critical polemics of discussion in this ambitious and comprehensive study heralds a new future in analyzing the cultural production and the transnatural imaginary. This volume as a whole addresses a highly complex and very real phenomenon. For these reasons, it is likely to be a handy teaching text facilitating accessibility, at the same time offering a significant development in the field.” - Shomi Munshi , Social Semiotics

“The issues raised are significant in a world context in which conventional paradigms are not necessarily useful in comprehending forces that pay little heed to administrative boundaries and have scant respect for older control mechanisms, such as the nation-state. . . . The treatments are as unconventional as the topics. . . . [V]astly entertaining.” - Pacific Affairs

“This volume poses the necessary challenge to a field of study that is on the brink of intellectual impasse and begs for further theoretical expansion and intervention.” - College Literature

"Challenging, provocative, informative, and giving full substance to the interrelations of the global and local, these essays carry the reader through a marvelously rich range of materials just where intellectual life in the humanities and social sciences today is most vital." - Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh