1st Edition
Cosmopolitan Fictions Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee
By Katherine Stanton
Copyright 2006
112 Pages
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Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.
The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global histories of the past and present, including the "indigenous or native" narratives that are, in... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fictions 1. Foreign Feelin: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and the New Europe 2. Criminal Justice in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost 3. Ethical Ennui and the AIDS Epidemic in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother 4. "History is Larger than Goodwill": Restitution and Redeistributive Justice in J.M Coetzee's Age of Iron and Disgrace Afterword: "To Touch the Future on its Hither Side" Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Katherine Stanton
