GLOBAL LITERATURE: RESEARCHING
NARRATIVE IN RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION
How can the notion of a Global Literature be translated into ethical
understanding and responsiveness to the many crises – poverty, dislocation,
terror, ecological destruction – that threaten human flourishing? A deeper
understanding of what constitutes this literature is needed. How can it be
organized? How disseminated? What are the conjunctures between the national, the
international, and the global as they are reflected in narrative literature and
film? How can these concepts be translated into curricular reform at the
secondary and post-secondary levels? What is the relationship of literature to
policy? How can narrative be leveraged as a means to effect positive change in
political, social, and economic institutions?
The goal of this website is to offer a collective chance to seek answers to
these questions. This is just a small beginning to a project which, given
collective effort and ideas, can perhaps grow into something with real power to
make positive change in the world today. Please share any ideas you have by
sending them to the e-mail address below. As this resource and idea bank
develops, organization development, grant seeking, conference, and publication
activities may be the next step. Thanks for contributing to the Global
Literature project.
Ginny Lewis, author of Globalizing the Peasant: Access to Land and the
Possibility of Self-Realization