Post-multicultural writers as neo-cosmopolitan mediators / Sneja Gunew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunew, Sneja Marina, 1946- author.

Series:

Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Minority authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Cosmopolitanism in literature.

Literature--Minority authors.

Physical Description:

viii, 157 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Anthem Press, 2017.

Summary:

The guiding principle of Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators is the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Francois Lyotard's concept of 'post' as the 'future anterior', Sneja Gunew sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism that salvages the elements within multiculturalism forgotten in its contemporary denigration. Gunew links this discussion to debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade, creating a framework for re-evaluating post-multicultural and Indigenous writers in settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, Gunew links these writers with transnational writers across diasporas from Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, China and India to construct a new framework for literary and cultural studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Who Counts as Human within (European) Modernity? 19

Patchwork Selves and Modernity 20

"European" as Floating Signifier in the Settler Colonics 23

Who Counts as European? 25

Cosmopolitanism and Occidentalism 27

2 Vernacular Cosmopolitans 33

Allegories of Cosmopolitanism: "Eastern" Europe 34

Imagining the Stranger: Olivia Manning, Rose Tremain and Rana Dasgupta 35

Imagining Oneself as Stranger: Dubravka Ugresic and Herta Müller 37

Interpellated as Stranger (Imagining Home): Antigone Kefala 41

Eur/Asian Vernacular Cosmopolitans 43

Cosmopolitanism and World Literature 44

Imagining the Stranger: Kyo Maclear 45

Imagining Oneself as Stranger: Fiona Tan 47

Interpellated as Stranger (Imagining Home): Ann Marie Fleming 51

3 The Serial Accommodations of Diaspora Writings 53

The Dubious Consolations of Diaspora Criticism 53

Resident Aliens: Diaspora: Women's Writing 54

Politics of Location: Here as Much as There 59

Revising Unhomely Histories 63

Reviewing the Homeland after Diaspora 66

4 Indigenous Cosmopolitanism: The Claims of Time 71

"Moving between Languages, Bobby Wrote on Stone" 73

Ambiguous Archives 76

Cannibal Christianity 77

The Planetary 80

Deep Time 81

5 The Cosmopolitanism in/of Language: English Performativity 85

English Performativity 86

Ouyang Yu: The English Glass 89

Wang Gang: English 91

Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers 93

Ruiyan Xu: The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai 94

Coda 95

6 Acoustic Cosmopolitanism: Echoes of Multilingualism 97

Acoustic Palimpsests 97

Tsiolkas: Barracuda 102

Castro: The Garden Book 105

Clarke: "The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa" 107

Post-Multiculturalism 108.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781783086634

1783086637

OCLC:

967719062