Cosmopolitanism in contemporary British fiction
Subtitle: imagined identities
By: Fiona McCulloch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230234772
Subjects: Cosmopolitanism in literature; History and criticism; English fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cross that bridge: Journeying through Zoe Strachan's Negative space; title: Boundaries. Desire: Philosophical nomadism in The powerbook and The stone gods; title: Fellow humans: Cosmopolitan citizens in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers; title: The bridge to the stars: Travelling home in His dark materials; title: Around we go: Transpositional life cycles in David Mitchell's Cloud atlas; title: Remember you must live. Remember you most love. Remember you must leave: Passing through Ali Smith's Hotel world.