Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | R. Spencer | ISBN: | 9780230305908 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | April 28, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | R. Spencer |
| ISBN: | 9780230305908 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | April 28, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
