1st Edition

Cosmopolitan Geographies New Locations in Literature and Culture

Edited By Vinay Dharwadker Copyright 2001
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.

    Introduction, Vinay Dharwadker; Chapter 1 The Village of the Liberal Managerial Class, Bruce Robbins; Chapter 2 “The Metropol and the Mayster-Toun”, Robert R. Edwards; Chapter 3 The Cartographic Imagination, David Harvey; Chapter 4 Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, Universalism and Pathos, Sharon Marcus; Chapter 5 Chinese Cosmopolitanism in Two Senses and Postcolonial National Memory, Pheng Cheah; Chapter 6 Theater and Cosmopolitanism, Una Chaudhuri; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitan Reading, K. Anthony Appiah;

    Biography

    Vinay Dharwadker

    "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