Katherine Stanton

Cosmopolitan Fictions

Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9780415975421
• ISBN-10: 0415975425
• Artikelnr.: 21558559

Autorenporträt

Katherine Stanton

Inhaltsangabe

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