Paul Jay states in “Globalization and the
Postcolonial Condition” that “English has become in our
own time less a national literature than a language in which people
write from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds”. As he
further claims, “cultures have always traveled and changed …
and the effects of globalization … only represent … the
inexorable change that occurs through intercultural contact”.
Thus, this section aims to study how globalization fosters cultural
interactions and social transformations, and to discuss the role of
transnational literatures in negotiating cultural differences and establishing
a global cross-cultural understanding. Among the key issues of the section
will be transnationalism, postcolonialism, globalization, cultural hybridity,
and multiculturalism.
