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World Bank Literature
Amitava Kumar
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Description for World Bank Literature
Paperback. Editor(s): Kumar, Amitava (Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Penn State University, USA). Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 610.
A trailblazing interrogation of the cultural, political, and economic implications of World Bank hegemony.
World Bank literature is more than a concept-it is a provocation, a call to arms. It is intended to prompt questions about each word, to probe globalization, political economy, and the role of literary and cultural studies. As asserted in this major work, it signals a radical rewriting of academic debates, a rigorous analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a consideration of literature that deals with new global realities.
Made more relevant than ever by momentous antiglobalization demonstrations in Seattle and ... Read more Contributors: Anthony C. Alessandrini, Kent State U; Bret Benjamin, SUNY, Albany; John Berger; Suzanne Bergeron, U of Michigan, Dearborn; Lorrayne Carroll, U of Southern Maine; Manthia Diawara, NYU; Grant Farred, Duke; Barbara Foley, Rutgers; Claire F. Fox, U of Iowa; Rosemary Hennessy, SUNY, Albany; Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer; Caren Irr, Brandeis; Joseph Medley, U of Southern Maine; Cary Nelson, U of Illinois; Gautam Premnath, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Bruce Robbins, Columbia; Andrew Ross, NYU; Subir Sinha, U of London; Kenneth Surin, Duke; Rashmi Varma, U of North Carolina; Evan Watkins, U of California, Davis; Phillip E. Wegner, U of Florida; Richard Wolff, U of Massachusetts. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816638376
SKU
V9780816638376
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About Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is associate professor of English and cultural studies at Penn State University. He is the author of Passport Photos (2000). John Berger is author of the Booker Prize–winning novel G. Among his renowned studies of art and photography are Ways of Seeing and Another Way of Telling. Bruce Robbins ... Read more
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