Titlebook: Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature; Robert Spencer Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking.978-1-349-31209-2978-0-230-30590-8

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Competing Cosmopolitanisms,nities of a world in which cultures and allegiances are being complicated, mixed and broadened. Popular discourses of hybridity, diaspora, exile and migration constitute not always successful but nonetheless welcome and auspicious attempts to think through a situation in which the globalisation of e

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Cosmopolitan Criticism,rce of cosmopolitan sentiment. For as Raymond Williams once argued, the task of constructing an emancipated society is surely ‘one of feeling and imagination quite as much as one of fact and organization’ (1989b, 76). It is a cultural as well as a political undertaking and therefore entails not just

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,Late Yeats: ‘Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State’,m being the first critic to reflect on the peculiar tone and technique of Yeats’s late poetry. Critics as distinguished as R.P. Blackmur (1986), T.S. Eliot (1975), Richard Ellmann (1985), Paul de Man (1984) and, I think more effectively than any of these, the Yeats scholar Thomas Parkinson (1964), h

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Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read ,, the original). What Bhabha values in Rushdie’s book is principally its capacity to question and trouble, if not quite dismantle, that simplistic opposition between fundamentalist Islam and an equally dogmatic faith in the virtues of ‘the West’. After all, what Bhabha understands by ‘hybridity’ is a

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,‘Listening for the echo’: Representation and Resistance in Timothy Mo’s ,,many other works is to be reminded of Dr Johnson’s description of those readers who recommend Shakespeare with select quotations: they are like the Greek who peddled his house by carrying round one of its bricks as a specimen.. My aims here are to show that in its radical epistemological and politic

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Conclusion,001; by its contempt for the existing multilateral system of global governance; by what the legal scholar Philippe Sands has called its ‘war on law’ (2005, xii); by its brazen scheme for a ‘New American Century’; and by its resort, under pressure from competing economies and from political resistanc