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Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature /

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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 institut...

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Main Author: Spencer, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Literature.
African Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Literary Theory.
Middle Eastern Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
African literature.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > Philosophy.
Middle Eastern literature.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 228 pages)
ISBN:9780230305908
DOI:10.1057/9780230305908