Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking.

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'This is an exciting and important new work in the field of postcolonial studies, one that is able to offer a significant intervention in ongoing debates around the idea of 'cosmopolitanism.' It has an extremely strong sense of the field and the work that has already been done on the topic and a very clear sense of its own relationship to that work.' - Priyamvada Gopal, University Senior Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge, UK

'Cosmopolitan Criticism...is lucidly-written, substantial and thought-provoking work which announces the arrival of a lively new voice in Postcolonial Studies.' - Bart Moore-Gilbert, New Formations

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University of Manchester, UK

Robert Spencer

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature
Authors: Robert Spencer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305908
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23166-5Published: 28 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31209-2Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30590-8Published: 28 April 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 228
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, African Literature

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Sound upon Silence

Competing Cosmopolitanisms