Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 235 Seiten)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9783031449956
Inhalt:
This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism⁰́₉s transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmofla̲neur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan character⁰́₉s urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwan⁰́₉s Saturday (2005), Zadie Smith⁰́₉s NW (2012), Salman Rushdie⁰́₉s The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguro⁰́₉s Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central. Elif Toprak Sak♯łz holds a PhD in English Literature from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TuÌ⁸rkiye. Her areas of interest include cultural studies, twenty-first-century fiction, narrative theory and posthumanism. She is a lecturer of Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at Dokuz Eylul University, where she has been teaching since 2010. She has published several articles in the fields of contemporary fiction, postcolonialism, gender studies and comparative literature
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism⁰́₉s New Orientations -- 2. New Intersections in Fiction: Cosmopolitanism, Culture and Economics -- 3. Narrative Glocality and The Cosmofla̲neur in Ian McEwan⁰́₉s Saturday.-4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan Culture and Economics in Zadie Smith⁰́₉s NW.-5. Cosmopolitan Identity and Narration in Salman Rushdie⁰́₉s The Golden House: The Move Towards Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.-6. Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Post-Covid-19 Sensitivities In Kazuo Ishiguro⁰́₉s Klara And The Sun.-7. Conclusion: The Genre of The Contemporary -- References.-Index.
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ISBN 9783031449949
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ISBN 9783031449970
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 3031449940
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ISBN 9783031449949
Sprache:
Englisch
