| Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture Contributor(s): Dharwadker, Vinay (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415925061 ISBN-13: 9780415925068 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2000 Annotation: Cosmopolitanism is back. A quarter century ago, the word described an aesthetic stance; today, the term is rich with political meaning. The cosmopolitan-the "citizen of the world"-is unconstrained by national boundaries. Today, the idea of the cosmopolitan is changing as the world changes: 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" considers the struggles at the heart of the subject-inclusion vs. exclusion, nation vs. world, globalization vs. local economy-not only in our own time but across centuries. "Cosmopolitan Geographies" asks whether in our rush to globalization we can sustain the geo-cultural ideal of cosmopolitan identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 00036590 |
| Series: Essays from the English Institute (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.13" W x 9.31" (1.11 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present. |
