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• Re-invention in a Globalized World: (Mis)reading and Metafictional Strategies in Tash Aw's Five Star Billionaire.

  Author:Angelia PoonFrom:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20217,740 words Article In his third novel, Five Star Billionaire, Tash Aw presents an account of globalization that ostensibly proclaims China's accelerating economic might and wealth in the new millennium with Shanghai as the global city par...

• In a Transnational World: Exploring Gendered Subjectivity, Mobility, and Consumption in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting

  From: Ariel

  April-July 20065,974 words Critical essay [(essay date April-July 2006) In the following essay, Poon contends that Fasting, Feasting calls into question theorized versions of globalization that posit transnational connectedness. Through literal and metaphoric...