Editorial Reviews
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"Lively, smart, compelling, this book reclaims and redefines cosmopolitanism in a wide range of periods and places. Its first-rate essays will be of keen interest to anyone grappling with questions of transnational and intercultural experience."
–Jahan Ramazani, author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English
"Cosmopolitan Geographies suggests that the geographical diversity as well as the long history of 'cosmopolitanism' is absolutely vital for imagining a non-ethnocentric international humanism today. The essays in this important volume bring together a rich variety of historical contexts, literary practices, and political imperatives in order to provoke us to rethink the relationship between national cultures and internationalism, and between cultural difference and universalism."
–Ania Loomba, Professor of English, University of Illinois and author of Colonialism/Postcolonialism
Book Description
Cosmopolitanism is back. A quarter century ago, the word described an aesthetic stance; today, the term is rich with political meaning. The cosmopolitan-the "citizen of the world"-is unconstrained by national boundaries. Today, the idea of the cosmopolitan is changing as the world changes: the rise of international capital, the alteration of borders, local and transnational demands for autonomy are all making cosmopolitanism a key concept in the study of people and language, writing, and space. Cosmopolitan Geographies considers the struggles at the heart of the subject-inclusion vs. exclusion, nation vs. world, globalization vs. local economy-not only in our own time but across centuries. Cosmopolitan Geographies asks whether in our rush to globalization we can sustain the geo-cultural ideal of cosmopolitan identity.
Cosmopolitan Geographies; New Locations in Literature and Culture (Essays from the English Institute),V. DHARWADKER,Routledge,041592507X,Cities and towns in literature,General,Internationalism,Internationalism in literature,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Globalization,Multicultural studies,Popular culture
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