انتقاد کیهانی و ادبیات پسااستعماری

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. This Book Represents A New Direction In Postcolonial Literary Criticism That Adds To The Well-known Narrative Of What Postcolonial Criticism Is, Against An Equally Forceful Account Of What It Is Actually For. Cosmopolitan Criticism And Postcolonial Literature Shows How Postcolonial Literary Texts, Largely Through The Relationships That They Engineer With Their Readers, Can Encourage Dispositions And Practices That Deserve To Be Called Cosmopolitan; That Are Characterised, In Other Words, By Self-awareness, By A Penetrating Sensitivity To The World Beyond One's Immediate Milieu, And By An Enlarged Sense Of Moral And Political Responsibility. The Book Formulates And Then Demonstrates A New Literary Critical Approach That Is Alert To The Ways In Which Postcolonial Writing Makes Available For Scrutiny The Durability Of Imperial Violence As Well As The Latency And Desirability Of Cosmopolitan Alternatives. The Task Of The Cosmopolitan Critic Is Therefore, In Yeats's Felicitous Phrase, 'to Hold In A Single Thought Reality And Justice'. Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Sound Upon Silence -- Competing Cosmopolitanisms -- Cosmopolitan Criticism -- Late Yeats: 'beating Upon The Wall Of The Irish Free State' -- J.m. Coetzee And The 'war On Terror' -- Refuse To Choose, Or, How To Read The Satanic Verses -- 'listening For The Echo': Representation And Resistance In Timothy Mo's The Redundancy Of Courage. Robert Spencer. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [205]-222) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 1 Introduction: Sound upon Silence......Page 12 Defining cosmopolitanism......Page 15 The cosmopolitan novel?......Page 18 'A cosmopolitanism of humility'......Page 24 2 Competing Cosmopolitanisms......Page 29 Cosmopolitanism in postcolonial theory......Page 31 'A cosmopolitanism worthy of the name'......Page 43 Conclusion......Page 49 Worldliness......Page 51 Cosmopolitan hermeneutics......Page 61 Conclusion......Page 69 4 Late Yeats: 'Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State'......Page 71 Yeats and the idea of late style......Page 75 Seeking a theme......Page 85 'An old man's eagle mind'......Page 95 Civilisations fall and rise......Page 101 Conclusion......Page 108 5 J.M. Coetzee and the 'War on Terror'......Page 115 Torture and dehumanisation......Page 119 Form and allegory......Page 123 Power and the body......Page 137 Conclusion......Page 147 6 Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses......Page 149 Literature and fundamentalism......Page 151 Styles of migration......Page 157 'The clash of fundamentalisms'......Page 165 Conclusion......Page 171 7 'Listening for the echo': Representation and Resistance in Timothy Mo's The Redundancy of Courage......Page 174 Said contra Said......Page 177 Narrative and truth......Page 187 Reading and resistance......Page 194 Conclusion......Page 199 8 Conclusion......Page 202 Notes......Page 210 Bibliography......Page 216 Index......Page 234