Cosmopolitan Fictions: Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje,...

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Katherine Stanton

Cosmopolitan Fictions

Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica...

Katherine Stanton

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Routledge
05 October 2005

Literary studies: general; Computing: general; Software Engineering

Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

"Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as ""cosmopolitan fiction"", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.

The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global histories of the past and present, including the ""indigenous or native"" narratives that are, in Homi Bhabha's words, ""internal to"" national identity itself.

The works take as their subjects:
* European unification
* the human rights movement
* the AIDS epidemic
* the new South Africa.

And they test the infinite demands for justice against the shifting borders of the nation, rethinking habits of feeling, modes of belonging and practices of citizenship for the global future.

Scholars, teachers and students of global literary and cultural studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions is a book to want on your reading list."

By: Katherine Stanton
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780415975421
ISBN 10: 0415975425
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 05 October 2005
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fictions 1. Foreign Feelin: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and the New Europe 2. Criminal Justice in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost 3. Ethical Ennui and the AIDS Epidemic in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother 4. ""History is Larger than Goodwill"": Restitution and Redeistributive Justice in J.M Coetzee's Age of Iron and Disgrace Afterword: ""To Touch the Future on its Hither Side"" Notes Bibliography Index"

Katherine Stanton