商品簡介
In his introduction Spencer (postcolonial literature and culture, U. of Manchester, UK) explains that students of world literature are necessarily students of the literary voices arising in response to the imperialism of the past several centuries. He also explains his use of the word cosmopolitan in the title (it's not just for the alliteration), as follows: "...it does important work that is not performed by the more commonly used term `international': that is, it forecasts a form of community beyond rather than between existing nation states." His study delves into defining the cosmopolitan novel, competing cosmopolitanisms, cosmopolitan criticism, Yeats and the idea of late style, J.M. Coetzee and the "War on Terror," reading The Satanic Verses, and Timothy Mo's The Redundancy of Courage. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
ROBERT SPENCER is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of numerous articles on African fiction, Palestinian literature, postcolonial theory and the work of Edward Said. This is his first book.
