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1 online resource (114 pages) |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fictions; Chapter One Foreign Feeling: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and the New Europe; Chapter Two Criminal Justice in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost; Chapter Three Ethical Ennui and the AIDS Epidemic in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother; Chapter Four History Is Larger than Goodwill: Restitution and Redistributive Justice in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Disgrace; Afterword ""To touch the future on its hither side""; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 movem |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- fast |
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Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- fast |
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Kincaid, Jamaica fast |
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- fast |
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Social change in literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Commonwealth fiction (English)
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English fiction
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Ethics in literature
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Politics and literature
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Social change in literature
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English-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135492366 |
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1135492360 |
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