Overview
Examines works by contemporary novelists such as Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro
Posits that contemporary cosmopolitanism in fiction is defined by the areas of culture and economics
Traces the departure from multiculturalism and universalism towards particularism in postmillennial novels
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism’s transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmoflâneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan character’s urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005), Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Elif Toprak Sakız holds a PhD in English Literature from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. Her areas of interest include cultural studies, twenty-first-century fiction, narrative theory and posthumanism. She is a lecturer of Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at Dokuz Eylul University, where she has been teaching since 2010. She has published several articles in the fields of contemporary fiction, postcolonialism, gender studies and comparative literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction
Authors: Elif Toprak Sakız
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44995-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44994-9Published: 18 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44997-0Due: 02 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44995-6Published: 17 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 235
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Cultural Economics