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This is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this
leading transnational author's film, television, short fiction and
novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017.
Comprising contributions from world-leading Ishiguro scholars as
well as new voices, the collection offers chapters devoted to each
of the major works, each of which draws out thematic and stylistic
connections with his body of work, both literary and filmic. This
timely study, following the critical and popular success of his
most recent fiction and his recognition by the Nobel committee, is
the only comprehensive study of an author at the forefront of world
literature. -- .
"Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably
well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my
way. Shaw's readings are critically informed and theoretically
sophisticated, yet at the same time remarkably lucid and clear.
This is a work of very fine, well-balanced, and - for a first book
- astonishingly mature scholarship." - Prof Berthold Schoene, Head
of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK "The first study to fully appreciate contemporary
literature's engagement with cosmopolitanism. A persuasive and
articulate engagement with questions of ethics, community,
transnationalism and cultural identity, it's an essential read for
anyone interested in the contribution of contemporary fiction to
our world today". - Dr Sara Upstone, Principal Lecturer in English
Literature, Kingston University, UK. This study of cosmopolitanism
in contemporary British and American fiction identifies several
authors who forge new and intensified dialogues between local
experience and global flows. The twenty-first century has been
marked by an unprecedented intensification in globalisation,
transnational mobility and technological change. The theories and
values of cosmopolitanism will be argued to provide a direct
response to ways of being-in-relation to others and answer urgent
fears surrounding cultural convergence. The four chapters examine
works by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Teju Cole, Dave Eggers and
Hari Kunzru. The study will demonstrate how these authors imagine
new cosmopolitan modes of belonging and point towards the need for
an emergent and affirmative cosmopolitics attuned to the diversity
and complexity of twenty-first century globality. The study assumes
an interdisciplinary approach and will appeal to literature
academics, under-/ postgraduate students, and researchers
interested in the culture and politics of contemporary life.
"Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably
well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my
way. Shaw's readings are critically informed and theoretically
sophisticated, yet at the same time remarkably lucid and clear.
This is a work of very fine, well-balanced, and - for a first book
- astonishingly mature scholarship." - Prof Berthold Schoene, Head
of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK "The first study to fully appreciate contemporary
literature's engagement with cosmopolitanism. A persuasive and
articulate engagement with questions of ethics, community,
transnationalism and cultural identity, it's an essential read for
anyone interested in the contribution of contemporary fiction to
our world today". - Dr Sara Upstone, Principal Lecturer in English
Literature, Kingston University, UK. This study of cosmopolitanism
in contemporary British and American fiction identifies several
authors who forge new and intensified dialogues between local
experience and global flows. The twenty-first century has been
marked by an unprecedented intensification in globalisation,
transnational mobility and technological change. The theories and
values of cosmopolitanism will be argued to provide a direct
response to ways of being-in-relation to others and answer urgent
fears surrounding cultural convergence. The four chapters examine
works by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Teju Cole, Dave Eggers and
Hari Kunzru. The study will demonstrate how these authors imagine
new cosmopolitan modes of belonging and point towards the need for
an emergent and affirmative cosmopolitics attuned to the diversity
and complexity of twenty-first century globality. The study assumes
an interdisciplinary approach and will appeal to literature
academics, under-/ postgraduate students, and researchers
interested in the culture and politics of contemporary life.
This book is the first edited collection to focus on the work of
contemporary author Hari Kunzru. It contains major new essays on
each of his novels – The Impressionist, Transmission, My
Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears and Red Pill – as well
as his short fiction and non-fiction writings. The collection
situates Kunzru’s work within current debates regarding
postmodernism, postcolonialism, and post-postmodernism, and
examines how Kunzru’s work is central to major thematic concerns
of contemporary writing including whiteness, national identity,
Britishness, cosmopolitanism, music, space, memory, art practice,
trauma, Brexit, immigration, covid-19, and populist politics. The
book engages with current debates regarding the politics of
publishing of ethnic writers, examining how Kunzru has managed to
shape a career in resistance of narrow labelling where many other
writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition. -- .
Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016
came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been
exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from
Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth
narratives - that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its
aftermath. Reading these tensions back into contemporary British
writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first
in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and
after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred
British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo
Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr
and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of
post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.
Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016
came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been
exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from
Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth
narratives - that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its
aftermath. Reading these tensions back into contemporary British
writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first
in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and
after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred
British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo
Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr
and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of
post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.
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