TY - BOOK
T1 - The limits of cosmopolitanism : globalization and its discontents in contemporary literature
A2 - STEVIĆ, Aleksandar
A2 - TSANG, Philip
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.4324/9780429030666
DO - 10.4324/9780429030666
M3 - Book (Editor)
SN - 9781138502048
T3 - Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
BT - The limits of cosmopolitanism : globalization and its discontents in contemporary literature
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -