Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
Contents
Imagining cosmopolitics. Families against the world : Ian McEwan ; James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads -- Tour de monde. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think -- Creating the world. Global noise : Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru ; Suburban worlds : Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor -- Coda: The cosmopolitan imagination.
Summary
Exploring whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community, this text advances the idea of the cosmopolitan novel and delineates its main features.
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