Cosmopolitan fictions
Subtitle: ethics, politics, and global change in the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J.M. Coetzee
By: Katherine Stanton.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780415975421
Subjects: Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation.; Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Social change in literature.; Ethics in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-97) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: contemporary cosmopolitan fictions; title: Foreign feeling : Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled and the new Europe; title: Criminal justice in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost; title: Ethical ennui and the AIDS epidemic in Jamaica Kincaid's My brother; title: History is larger than goodwill? : restitution and redistributive justice in J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron and disgrace; title: Afterword: "To touch the future on its hither side."