At home in the world
Subtitle: cosmopolitanism now
By: Timothy Brennan.
Series: Convergences; Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Popular culture -- United States.; Civilization, Modern -- American influences.; Arts, Modern -- 20th century.; Cosmopolitanism -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: From every quarter we hear of a new global culture, postcolonial, hybrid, announcing the death of nationalism, the arrival of cosmopolitanism. But under the drumbeat attending this trend, Timothy Brennan detects another, altogether different sound. Polemical, passionate, certain to provoke, his book exposes the drama being played out under the guise of globalism.

A bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself cosmopolitanism, it also takes note of the many countervailing forces acting against globalism in its facile, homogenizing sense. A critical call to arms, At Home in the World summons intellectuals and scholars to reinvigorate critical cultural studies. In stripping the false and headless from the new cosmopolitanism, Brennan revitalizes the idea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-354) and index.