ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Tessa McWatt's novel Out of My Skin as a text attuned to more than one set of cultural beliefs, value systems, and ways of knowing in the glocal city, and where global realities clearly are encountered on different as well as unequal terms. The adjective 'glocal' has emerged in a number of different disciplinary, methodological, and ideological contexts as a polyvalent term for talking about the critical, intimate relation of the local to the global. Diana Brydon, emphasizing the gap between theory and praxis in literary studies preoccupied with questions of social justice, defines 'glocal' with reference to postcolonial theories. Although McWatt's glocal vision challenges the marriage of capitalism and imperialism in both Guyana and Canada, in the end her novel seems to endorse a safer, neo-liberal version of multiculturalism at the expense of recognizing Indigenous land rights and the Indigenous right of passage in the city.
