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Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature/ Robert Spencer.
Author:	Spencer, Robert,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Cosmopolitanism in literature. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230305908 (electronic bk.)

Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature
Spencer, Robert,1977-

Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature[electronic resource] /Robert Spencer. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

This book represents a new direction in postcolonial literary criticism that adds to the well-known narrative of what postcolonial criticism is, against an equally forceful account of what it is actually for. Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature shows how postcolonial literary texts, largely through the relationships that they engineer with their readers, can encourage dispositions and practices that deserve to be called cosmopolitan; that are characterised, in other words, by self-awareness, by a penetrating sensitivity to the world beyond one's immediate milieu, and by an enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility. The book formulates and then demonstrates a new literary critical approach that is alert to the ways in which postcolonial writing makes available for scrutiny the durability of imperial violence as well as the latency and desirability of cosmopolitan alternatives. The task of the cosmopolitan critic is therefore, in Yeats's felicitous phrase, 'to hold in a single thought reality and justice'.

ISBN: 9780230305908 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613124517

Source: 364162Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

567282
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN56.C683 / S64 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.04

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