J.M.G. Le Clzio A Concerned Citizen of the Global Village [Paperback]

This ambitious study aims to do justice to the wide range of Le Cl?zios work, the urgency of the crises that inspire him  globalization, exploitation and poverty, the loss of authentic communities, intercultural conflict, the destruction of the environment  and the powerful imaginative vision that animates his fiction. Keith Moser efficiently documents the testimony of specialists and compiles readings of the novels and meditative essays, translating extracts from many works which are not available elsewhere in English. By setting Le Cl?zios writing within key fields of contemporary ethical debates, this book offers insights into one of the significant authors which the twentieth-century has bequeathed to the twenty-first.Also author of Privileged Moments in the Novels and Short Stories of J. M. G. Le Cl?zio (2008), Moser (Mississippi State Univ.) takes the reader on a journey through globalization as depicted in Le Cl?zio's works. In five chapters, Moser identifies the key theme in the French-Mauritian's fiction: globalization and its ill effects--marginalization and exploitation, conflicts between cultures, destruction of the environment and of community. With support from specialists across disciplines, he is able to construct a vision of the global village that is in direct contrast to the model created by Marshall McLuhan. According to Moser, rather than focus on the happy few who have benefitted from the labors of the many, Le Cl?zio calls for a return to petitesse (smallness) to create a global village that will be sustainable. The book concludes with Moser's interview of Le Cl?zio, and this conversation enriches the content of the book by allowing the reader direct access to Le Cl?zio's thoughts on globalization. Included are notes for each chapter. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty.As a contribution to scholarly research on Le Cl?zio in English, J.M.G. Le Cl?zio: A Concerned Citizen of the Global Village is most well“p