Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel [electronic resource] /
McCluskey, Alan.author.
In this work, Alan McCluskey explores materialism, in its many conceptual forms, in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. The author applies a 'cosmopolitan materialist' lens to the novels of Caryl Phillips, J. M. Coetzee, and Philip Roth: three contemporary authors who hail from different parts of the world and produce highly dissimilar novels.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Introduction: Cosmopolitanism, Ethics, and Materialism 1. A Cosmopolitan Vision of Home and Subjectivity in Caryl Phillips 2. Cosmopolitanism and Materialist Ethics in J. M. Coetzee 3. Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence in Philip Roth's American Trilogy Epilogue: Possibilities and Limitations Bibliography Index.
In this work, Alan McCluskey explores materialism, in its many conceptual forms, in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. The author applies a 'cosmopolitan materialist' lens to the novels of Caryl Phillips, J. M. Coetzee, and Philip Roth: three contemporary authors who hail from different parts of the world and produce highly dissimilar novels.
Phillips, Caryl
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
Roth, Philip
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature   .
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Literary History.
Postcolonial/World Literature.