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Cosmopolitan Fictions by Katherine Stanton examines a distinctive genre of global literature that explores the ethics and politics of complex cultural belonging across works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee. This literary criticism and cultural theory text identifies how these major contemporary authors represent and revise global histories, investigating indigenous and native narratives that shape national identity itself. The book analyses fictions that engage with pivotal historical moments and social movements, including European unification, the human rights movement, the AIDS epidemic, and post-apartheid South Africa. Through close readings of these internationally significant works, Stanton demonstrates how cosmopolitan fiction interrogates the possibilities and limits of ethical engagement across borders and communities. Published by Routledge, this academic study contributes to ongoing reframings of literary studies by foregrounding how complex narratives of belonging shape our understanding of contemporary global literature and cultural transformation.

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Cosmopolitan Fictions analyses works by four Nobel Prize and internationally acclaimed authors: Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee.

The book examines how these fictions represent European unification, human rights movements, the AIDS epidemic, and the new South Africa through ethical and political lenses.

Katherine Stanton's study identifies cosmopolitan fiction as a genre that investigates the ethics and politics of complex, multiple belonging in contemporary global literature.

Published by Routledge as part of the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series, this text contributes to reframing literary studies in the twenty-first century.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415975425
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 January 2006
Listed Since: 29 January 2007

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