Penny Cartwright is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK. Previously, she has worked as a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford and a Teaching Associate in English at University of Bristol.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. ‘The illusion of affluence’: Global overwhelm in Graceland2. ‘What kind of ants had built them’: Dramatic irony and the global scale in Wizard of the Crow3. ‘[F]lies on the eyelids’: Media-made global imaginaries in Binyavanga Wainaina’s short fiction4. ‘[A]ll the clang, the rang-tang-tang’: Relearning the global in One Day I Will Write About This Place5. ‘[L]overs in distant lands’: Post-development and performances of modernity in I Do Not Come to You by Chance6. Crisis and fantasy: Blackass’s metamorphosizing global imaginariesConclusion: Lessons learned, alternate paths and the final formBibliographyIndex

Penny Cartwright is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK. Previously, she has worked as a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford and a Teaching Associate in English at University of Bristol.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. ‘The illusion of affluence’: Global overwhelm in Graceland2. ‘What kind of ants had built them’: Dramatic irony and the global scale in Wizard of the Crow3. ‘[F]lies on the eyelids’: Media-made global imaginaries in Binyavanga Wainaina’s short fiction4. ‘[A]ll the clang, the rang-tang-tang’: Relearning the global in One Day I Will Write About This Place5. ‘[L]overs in distant lands’: Post-development and performances of modernity in I Do Not Come to You by Chance6. Crisis and fantasy: Blackass’s metamorphosizing global imaginariesConclusion: Lessons learned, alternate paths and the final formBibliographyIndex

Penny Cartwright is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK. Previously, she has worked as a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford and a Teaching Associate in English at University of Bristol.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. ‘The illusion of affluence’: Global overwhelm in Graceland2. ‘What kind of ants had built them’: Dramatic irony and the global scale in Wizard of the Crow3. ‘[F]lies on the eyelids’: Media-made global imaginaries in Binyavanga Wainaina’s short fiction4. ‘[A]ll the clang, the rang-tang-tang’: Relearning the global in One Day I Will Write About This Place5. ‘[L]overs in distant lands’: Post-development and performances of modernity in I Do Not Come to You by Chance6. Crisis and fantasy: Blackass’s metamorphosizing global imaginariesConclusion: Lessons learned, alternate paths and the final formBibliographyIndex