"Geography is destiny": Globalization, Space and Mobility in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
| Název práce v češtině: | “Zeměpis je osud”: Globalizace, prostor a mobilita v Tropic of Orange Karen Tei Yamashity a Exit West Mohsina Hamida |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | "Geography is destiny": Globalization, Space and Mobility in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West |
| Klíčová slova: | globalizace|transnacionalismus|postkoloniální literatura|etnicita|identita|komunita|globální vesnice|migrace|prostředí|magický realismus|Karen Tei Yamashita|Mohsin Hamid |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | globalization|transnationalism|postcolonial literature|ethnicity|identity|community|global village|migration|setting|magical realism|Karen Tei Yamashita|Mohsin Hamid |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2023/2024 |
| Typ práce: | bakalářská práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 05.03.2024 |
| Datum zadání: | 05.03.2024 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | bylo schváleno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 05.03.2024 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 04.02.2025 09:30 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 03.01.2025 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 04.02.2025 |
| Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: | odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná |
| Oponenti: | doc. Erik Sherman Roraback, D.Phil. |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| This thesis aims to examine and compare the effects of globalization in the setting of Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West with its effects on identity, exploring how the novels illustrate the positive and negative impacts of globalization in urban spaces, communities and the inequalities they allow, ultimately shedding light on the complexities of a globalized world. In my thesis, I will aim to compare and analyze how the processes of globalization evident in different socio-political and geographical settings of the novels shape and affect the characters‘ lives and identities. The advancements in technology, communication, and trade that globalization engenders, alongside with geopolitical conflicts, create hybrid transnational identities of people free or forced to move across borders, taking their cultures and ideas with them or leaving them behind, leading to increased diversity, mobility, and interconnectedness in human societies. Migration, diaspora communities and multiculturalism are all phenomena that both authors discuss and build their stories around. Yamashita situates her story in Los Angeles which serves as a microcosm of globalization and explores how individuals from different social backgrounds experience and negotiate the complexities of urban life in the context of globalization. In Hamid’s novel, the city becomes a microcosm of global migration patterns and allows for a discussion of the fluidity of borders and the interconnectedness of urban spaces in a globalized world. I will analyze the cultural diversity of the urban spaces, issues of economic inequality and gentrification and even the impact of technological innovation and communication networks on urban life. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Bağlama, Sercan Hamza. “Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West: Co-Opting Refugees into Global Capitalism.” New Middle Eastern Studies 9, no. 2 (2019): 149-158. Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West. Milton Keynes: Penguin Random House UK, 2018. Hart, Matthew. Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction. Columbia University Press, 2020. Kay, Tamara. NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Lee, Sue-Im. “‘We Are Not The World’: Global Village, Universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic Of Orange.” Modern Fiction Studies 53, no. 3 (2007): 501-527. Sadowski-Smith, Claudia. “The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Write Back: Cross-Cultural Transnationalism in Contemporary U.S. Women of Color Fiction.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 57, no. 1 (2001): 91-112. Schetrumpf, Tegan, and Aleks Wansbrough. “Imagining Utopia through Communities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8, no. 2 (2022): 88-107. Wallace, Molly. “Tropics of Globalization: Reading the New North America.” Symplokē 9, no. 1/2 (2001): 145–60. Yamashita, Karen Tei. Tropic of Orange. 2nd Edition. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2017. |