Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature / by R. Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Robert, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

European literature.

Middle Eastern literature.

African literature.

World Literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

European Literature.

Middle Eastern Literature.

African Literature.

Local Subjects:

World Literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

European Literature.

Middle Eastern Literature.

African Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Sound upon Silence; 2 Competing Cosmopolitanisms; 3 Cosmopolitan Criticism; 4 Late Yeats: 'Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State'; 5 J.M. Coetzee and the 'War on Terror'; 6 Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses; 7 'Listening for the echo': Representation and Resistance in Timothy Mo's The Redundancy of Courage; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613124517

9781283124515

1283124513

9780230305908

0230305903

OCLC:

728642706