Abstract
Lois Parkinson Zamora, in her paper "Comparative Literature in an Age of 'Globalization'," presents a definition of globalization and considers how its cultural and spatial displacements have, and might, change traditional disciplinary practices of comparative literature. Zamora discusses how contemporary Latin American writers dramatize and evaluate the forces of globalization in their fiction and she exemplifies her observations with texts by Carpentier, Borges, Paz, Fuentes, Puig, García Márquez, and Vargas Llosa. Further, the author proposes that the cultural specificity of fictions by contemporary Latin American writers may serve as an antidote to current processes of cultural homogenization.
Recommended Citation
Zamora, Lois Parkinson.
"Comparative Literature in an Age of "Globalization"."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
4.3
(2002):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1161>
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