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World Bank literature / Amitava Kumar, editor ; foreword by John Berger ; afterword by Bruce Robbins.
| Other author | Kumar, Amitava, 1963- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003. |
| Description | xxxiii, 308 pages ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Consolations for capitalists: propositions in flight from World Bank literature / Cary Nelson -- World Bank literacy and the culture of jobs / Evan Watkins -- Looking backward, 2002-1969: campus activism in the era of globalization / Barbara Foley -- Ya basta! We are rising up! World Bank culture and collective opposition in the north / Rosemary Hennessy -- What is globalization anyway? / Doug Henwood -- Toward a regional imaginary in Africa / Manthia Diawara -- "Poverty in liberty, riches in slavery": the IMF, the World Bank, and women's resistance in west Africa / Grant Farred -- The uneven development of tactics / Andrew Ross -- Breaking the waves: reading World Bank and social movement documents on the global fisheries / Subir Sinha -- Hostage to an unaccountable planetary executive: the flawed "Washington consensus" and two World Bank reports / Kenneth Surin -- "Whooping it up for rational prosperity": narratives of the east Asian financial crisis / Joseph Medley and Lorrayne Carroll -- Challenging the World Bank's narrative of inclusion / Suzanne Bergeron -- World Bank/class blindness / Richard Wolff -- Left sensationalists at the transnational crime scene: recent detective fiction from the U.S.-Mexico border region / Claire F. Fox -- Under control: reading the facts and FAQs of population control / Bret Benjamin -- Developing fictions: the "tribal" in the new Indian writing in English / Rashmi Varma -- All published literature is World Bank literature; or, The Zapatistas' storybook / Caren Irr -- The weak sovereignty of the postcolonial nation-state / Gautam Premnath -- Reading Bharati Mukherjee, reading globalization / Anthony C. Alessandrini -- Soldierboys for peace: cognitive mapping, space, and science fiction as World Bank literature / Phillip E. Wegner. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2002010608 |
| ISBN | 0816638365 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816638373 (pbk. : alk. paper) |