Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures: Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities

Contributors.- Introduction: Interrogating the Production, Circulation and Reception of 'Difference' in Globalized Cultures; Belén Martín-Lucas and Andrea Ruthven.- Subversive Translation and Lexical Empathy: Pedagogies of Cortesia and Transnational Multilingual Poetics; Merlinda Bobis.- The Production and Productivity of Humanitarian Fiction: Postcolonial Shame and Neocolonial Crises; David Callahan.- Still Devouring Frida Kahlo: Psychobiography versus Postcolonial and Disability Readings; Zoë Brigley Thompson.- The World Republic of Readers; James Procter.- Success and the City: Working in the World's Capital in Monica Ali's Brick Lane ; Darragh Patrick Hall.- Borderless (Alien)Nations: Disposable Bodies and Biopolitical Effacement in Min Sook Lee's Docu-Poem; Libe García Zarranz.- Public Art in the Production of a Global City: Jamie Hilder's Clashing Versions of Vancouver; John Havelda.- A Nation Goes Adrift: Subaltern Inter-Identity in José Saramago's The Stone Raft ; Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia.- 'Something Terrible Happened': Spectacles of Gendered Violence and Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun ; Sorcha Gunne.- Alternative Modernities and Othered Masculinities in Mira Nair's The Namesake ; E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz.- (Un)Veiling Women's Bodies: Transnational Feminisms in Emer Martin's Baby Zero ; Aida Rosende Pérez.- Index.