Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in Literature: 219 (Cross/Cultures)
by: Elizabeth Jackson (Author)
Publisher: BRILL
Publication Date: 22 Dec. 2022
Language: English
Print Length: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 9004514317
ISBN-13: 9789004514317
Book Description
This book investigates literary representations and self-representations of people with cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend categories of migrancy and diaspora. Part I focuses on the ways in which cosmopolitan characters are represented in selected novels, from the debauched Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited, to the victimized Ila in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines, to John le Carré's undefinable spies. Part II focuses on self-representations of people with a cosmopolitan upbringing, in the form of autobiographical narratives by well-known authors such as Barack Obama and Edward Said, along with lesser-known writers, all of whom "write back" to the ways in which they have at times been stereotyped and othered in literary fiction and public discourse.
About the Author
About the Author Elizabeth Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies. She has a PhD from the University of London (2007), and her previous publications include two single-authored books: Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing (2010) and Muslim Indian Women Writing in English (2017).
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