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

The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature
ISBN-10
0429638175
ISBN-13
9780429638176
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
198
Language
English
Published
2019-02-13
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Aleksandar Stevic, Philip Tai-Hang Tsang

Description

This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such diverse locales as England, Algeria, Sweden, former Yugoslavia, and the Sudan, the essays in this collection interrogate the tensions and impasses in our prison-house of cosmopolitanism.

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