Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature [electronic resource] /
Spencer, R.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Sound upon Silence; 2 Competing Cosmopolitanisms; 3 Cosmopolitan Criticism; 4 Late Yeats: 'Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State'; 5 J.M. Coetzee and the 'War on Terror'; 6 Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses; 7 'Listening for the echo': Representation and Resistance in Timothy Mo's The Redundancy of Courage; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature   .
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Middle Eastern literature.
African literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Middle Eastern Literature.
African Literature.