03132nam 2200661Ia 450 991078853250332120230126211501.01-283-62987-90-7391-7206-99786613942326(CKB)3360000000435669(EBL)1034720(OCoLC)813285792(SSID)ssj0000720983(PQKBManifestationID)12350397(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720983(PQKBWorkID)10687423(PQKB)10620667(Au-PeEL)EBL1034720(CaPaEBR)ebr10607480(CaONFJC)MIL394232(MiAaPQ)EBC1034720(EXLCZ)99336000000043566920120905d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJ.M.G. Le Clézio[electronic resource] a concerned citizen of the global village /Keith MoserLanham, MD Lexington Books20121 online resource (231 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-9759-2 0-7391-7205-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The "Global Village"; Chapter Two: Defending the Marginalized and Disenfranchised Inhabitants of the Global Village; Chapter Three: Consumerism, the Media, and the Anonymous Forces that Sustain the Modern World in Le Clézio's Narratives; Chapter Four: Deconstructing the "Genesis Myth" and Simulating Cosmic Empathy for the Entire Material Universe; Chapter Five: Resisting Global Hegemonic Domination in Le Clézio's Narratives and the Importance of Interculturality; Conclusion; Postscript: "Doubting Must Be the Beginning of Wisdom"ReferencesIndex; About the AuthorThis monograph represents the first comprehensive study of the multifaceted representations of the complex phenomenon of globalization in the diverse repertoire of the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This interdisciplinary investigation explores the original euphoria related to the ambivalent concept of the 'global village' and how this evaporated dream can perhaps be re-appropriated and redefined to create a better global society for both the human and Cosmic Other through the lens of Le Clézio's fiction.Globalization in literatureConsumption (Economics) in literatureMaterial culture in literatureSocial values in literatureSocial justice in literatureGlobalization in literature.Consumption (Economics) in literature.Material culture in literature.Social values in literature.Social justice in literature.843/.914Moser Keith A1199429MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788532503321J.M.G. Le Clézio3717228UNINA