ABSTRACT
This 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|74 pages
Cosmopolitan Hegemons
chapter 2|20 pages
Building Bridges
chapter 4|15 pages
Stuck Between England and Egypt
part II|55 pages
Subjects of Displacement
chapter 7|17 pages
Alien-Nation and the Algerian Harraga
part III|49 pages
Circulated Objects