Overview
The cosmopolitan - the citizen of the world - is unconstrained by national boundaries. Today, 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"" asks whether in our rush towards globalization we can sustain the geo-cultural ideal of cosmopolitan identity. Contributors include: David Harvey; Bruce Robbins; Kwame Anthony Appiah; Una Chaudhuri; Pheng Cheah; Robert R, Edwards.
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Author: Vinay Dharwadker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.502kg
ISBN: 9780415925068
ISBN 10: 0415925061
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 19 December 2000
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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
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
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. <br>-Jahan Ramazani, author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English <br> 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. <br>-Ania Loomba, Professor of English, University of Illinois and author of Colonialism/Postcolonialism <br>
