Hi, my name is Vicky. I’ve been majoring in Computer Information Systems since last semester, I was doing accounting before and decided it wasn’t for me. I don’t have a favorite book, but I do like to read a lot. Mostly non-fictions like memoirs, personal finance, food related books and things of that ilk. Currently I’m reading Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, and New Elite by Jim Taylor and Doug Harrison. I like to cook, play pool and swim. I go to off-Broadway shows at least twice a week, I also go to classical music concerts. I’m only recently getting into attending galleries and museums. I plan to pick up the violin again and if I could, get some piano lessons in there, too.
In regards to the Paul Jay writing, I largely wasn’t confused by it. I understood his message but it’s his way of wording that I find somewhat difficult to understand. He words things in a flowery way and repeats them over and over which makes it tedious to read. I did have to read his work a couple times to fully understand that all he’s trying to say is globalization has an impact on every aspect of life, and he’s going to go into detail about how it affects the literary part.
I do like the part where Paul Jay said
“…globalization is dated as beginning in at least the sixteenth century and covering a time span that includes the long histories of imperialism, colonization, decolonization, and post-colonialism. This is both a historically sound approach to globalization and it has the practical benefit of historicizing literary and cultural studies…”
I find myself agreeing with his definition of globalization to start when the world was exploring itself and ideas started to exchange.
I did find the part you quoted to be on point. I believe globalization has been on going for centuries.