Conceptualising the global in the wake of the postmodern: literature, culture, theory

This text argues that, in the wake of the postmodern, contemporary culture becomes once again concerned with totality, the main focal point of expression for this being concepts of the global.

It uncovers predominant ways of conceptualising the global in contemporary literature, film, and theory.

In so doing, it offers a fresh approach to the study of globalisation and culture, identifying four main categories under which concepts of the global can be placed: the immanent, the transcendent, the contingent and the beyond-measure.

Alongside this, it discovers a confrontation between two predominant ways of figuring human relations on a global scale.