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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962251803321

Autore

Spencer Robert <1977->

Titolo

Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature / / by R. Spencer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786613124517

9781283124515

1283124513

9780230305908

0230305903

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004120LIT004010LIT004220LIT000000

Disciplina

809/.04

Soggetti

Literature

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

European literature

Middle Eastern literature

African literature

World Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

European Literature

Middle Eastern Literature

African Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.