Cosmopolitan Fictions
Author | : Katherine Stanton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2013-10-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135492366 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135492360 |
Rating | : 4/5 (360 Downloads) |
Download or read book Cosmopolitan Fictions written by Katherine Stanton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 movement * the AIDS epidemic * the new South Africa. And they test the infinite demands for justice against the shifting borders of the nation, rethinking habits of feeling, modes of belonging and practices of citizenship for the global future. Scholars, teachers and students of global literary and cultural studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions is a book to want on your reading list.