Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature

✍ Scribed by Robert Spencer

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction: Sound upon Silence......Page 12
Defining cosmopolitanism......Page 15
The cosmopolitan novel?......Page 18
'A cosmopolitanism of humility'......Page 24
2 Competing Cosmopolitanisms......Page 29
Cosmopolitanism in postcolonial theory......Page 31
'A cosmopolitanism worthy of the name'......Page 43
Conclusion......Page 49
Worldliness......Page 51
Cosmopolitan hermeneutics......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 69
4 Late Yeats: 'Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State'......Page 71
Yeats and the idea of late style......Page 75
Seeking a theme......Page 85
'An old man's eagle mind'......Page 95
Civilisations fall and rise......Page 101
Conclusion......Page 108
5 J.M. Coetzee and the 'War on Terror'......Page 115
Torture and dehumanisation......Page 119
Form and allegory......Page 123
Power and the body......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 147
6 Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses......Page 149
Literature and fundamentalism......Page 151
Styles of migration......Page 157
'The clash of fundamentalisms'......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 171
7 'Listening for the echo': Representation and Resistance in Timothy Mo's The Redundancy of Courage......Page 174
Said contra Said......Page 177
Narrative and truth......Page 187
Reading and resistance......Page 194
Conclusion......Page 199
8 Conclusion......Page 202
Notes......Page 210
Bibliography......Page 216
Index......Page 234