The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138502048 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 198 str.

Aleksandar Stevic; Philip Tai Tsang

Opis

The essays collected in this volume explore how contemporary literature imagines living between identities and locales—Nigerian and American, Turkish and German, Sudanese and European—in order to ask broad questions about the meaning of cosmopolitanism.

Spis treści

Introduction, ALEKSANDAR STEVIĆ AND PHILIP TSANG. Part I: Cosmopolitan Hegemons. 1. Cosmopolis Besieged: The Exilic Reunion of Bogdan Bogdanović and Milo Dor, VLADIMIR ZORIĆ. 2. Building Bridges: Constructing a Comparative Sufi Cosmopolitanism in Rock and Roll Jihad, MUKTI LAKHI MANGHARAM. 3. Whose are the Streets? Sunjeev Sahota’s Fiction of Failed Cosmopolitan Conviviality, ANA CRISTINA MENDES. 4. Stuck Between England and Egypt: Sudanese Cosmopolitanism in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley, SUHA KUDSIEH. Part II Subjects of Displacement. 5. Unbelonging: Caryl Phillips and the Ethics of Disaffiliation, ALEKSANDAR STEVIĆ. 6. Why Is the Patient "English"? Disidentification as Cosmopolitanism in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction, PHILIP TSANG. 7. Alien-nation and the Algerian Harraga: The Limits of Nation-Building and Cosmopolitanism as Interpretive Models for the Clandestine Immigrant, MARY ANNE LEWIS CUSATO. Part III: Circulated Objects. 8. Cosmopolitanism and Orality in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc., KATHERINE HALLEMEIER. 9. Animated Plastic and Material Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, JUNGHA KIM. 10. Paying Attention to a World in Crisis: Cosmopolitanism in Climate Fiction, PAUL TENNGART. Notes on Contributors. Index.