Screen LibraryCosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature
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 institut...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. 'This is an exciting and important new work in the field of postcolonial studies, one that is able to offer a significant intervention in ongoing debates around the idea of 'cosmopolitanism.' It has an extremely strong sense of the field and the work that has already been done on the topic and a very clear sense of its own relationship to that work.' - Priyamvada Gopal, University Senior Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge, UK. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230231665, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 240 p. |
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9780230231665 9780230305908 : 0230305903 : |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements Introduction: Sound Upon Silence Competing Cosmopolitanisms Cosmopolitan Criticism Late Yeats: 'Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State' J.M. Coetzee and the 'War on Terror' Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses 'Listening for the Echo': Representation and Resistance in Timothy Mo's The Redundancy of Courage Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index. |