The Limits of Cosmopolitanism
Author: Aleksandar Stevic
Publisher: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781138502048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such diverse locales as England, Algeria, Sweden, former Yugoslavia, and the Sudan, the essays in this collection interrogate the tensions and impasses in our prison-house of cosmopolitanism.