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Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature

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  1. Robert Spencer

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Sound upon Silence

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 1-17

  3. Competing Cosmopolitanisms

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 18-39

  4. Cosmopolitan Criticism

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 40-59

  5. Late Yeats: ‘Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State’

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 60-103

  6. J.M. Coetzee and the ‘War on Terror’

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 104-137

  7. Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 138-162

  8. ‘Listening for the echo’: Representation and Resistance in Timothy Mo’s The Redundancy of Courage

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 163-190

  9. Conclusion

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 191-198

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 199-228
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About this book

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.

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'This is an exciting and important new work in the field of postcolonial studies, one that is able to offer a significant intervention in ongoing debates around the idea of 'cosmopolitanism.' It has an extremely strong sense of the field and the work that has already been done on the topic and a very clear sense of its own relationship to that work.' - Priyamvada Gopal, University Senior Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge, UK

'Cosmopolitan Criticism...is lucidly-written, substantial and thought-provoking work which announces the arrival of a lively new voice in Postcolonial Studies.' - Bart Moore-Gilbert, New Formations

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Robert Spencer

About the author

ROBERT SPENCER is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of numerous articles on African fiction, Palestinian literature, postcolonial theory and the work of Edward Said. This is his first book.

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