First published by Verso 2019

© Fredric Jameson 2019

Map in Chapter 3 reprinted with permission of Financial Policy Magazine, March 2, 2016.

The figures in Chapter 4 are reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press through PLSclear from Seth Monahan, Mahler’s Symphonic Sonatas, 2015.

“Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” part of Chapter 5, was published originally in Social Text, no. 15 (Autumn 1986).

Appendix A reproduced with permission of the University of Minnesota Press from the author’s foreword to Algirdas Julien Greimas, On Meaning, 1970.

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