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Cosmopoetics :Global imagination in contemporary writing (J. M. Coetzee, Charles Johnson, Amitav Ghosh, Ruth L. Ozeki)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cosmopoetics :
Reminder of title:	Global imagination in contemporary writing (J. M. Coetzee, Charles Johnson, Amitav Ghosh, Ruth L. Ozeki)
Author:	Black, Shameem.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Arnold Rampersad; Shirley Brice Heath.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1361.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3128349
ISBN:	0496756117

Cosmopoetics :Global imagination in contemporary writing (J. M. Coetzee, Charles Johnson, Amitav Ghosh, Ruth L. Ozeki)
Black, Shameem.

Cosmopoetics :Global imagination in contemporary writing (J. M. Coetzee, Charles Johnson, Amitav Ghosh, Ruth L. Ozeki) [electronic resource] - 266 p.

Advisers: Arnold Rampersad; Shirley Brice Heath.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

In my first chapter, I describe how cosmopoetics enables ethical dialogue across social borders. In many theories, a novel's representation of other cultures is read as a mask for its own aspirations and anxieties. I claim that novels ironically escape such endless cultural mirroring by first delving inward, probing the contours of their own cultural locations in order to consider the perspectives of others. More broadly, the strategies of cosmopoetics entail playful, precise interpretation, stress the renunciation of privilege, assert the power of shared visions, and posit fluid forms of culture that challenge the logic of private property. Such choices enable novels to speak with and to, rather than simply about, the worlds they recreate.

ISBN: 0496756117Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 # $a In my first chapter, I describe how cosmopoetics enables ethical dialogue across social borders. In many theories, a novel's representation of other cultures is read as a mask for its own aspirations and anxieties. I claim that novels ironically escape such endless cultural mirroring by first delving inward, probing the contours of their own cultural locations in order to consider the perspectives of others. More broadly, the strategies of cosmopoetics entail playful, precise interpretation, stress the renunciation of privilege, assert the power of shared visions, and posit fluid forms of culture that challenge the logic of private property. Such choices enable novels to speak with and to, rather than simply about, the worlds they recreate.
520 # $a My four subsequent chapters elucidate these narrative choices in the writings of J. M. Coetzee, Charles Johnson, Amitav Ghosh, and Ruth L. Ozeki. Coetzee reworks the eighteenth-century concept of sympathetic imagination to think across lines of gender, race, and species, while Johnson relies on Asian discourses to narrate African American history through a cosmopoetics of polyphony. Ghosh crafts family narratives to articulate polyglot communities of diaspora, and Ozeki imagines feminist solidarity in a world mediated by television and trade. Offering both the intimacy of close relationships and the possibility of global alliances, these cosmopoetical narratives invite their readers to share in the project of responsibly imagining global community.
520 # $a My project asks how the novel, once considered the voice of the nation, works to represent global communities. Focusing on contemporary postcolonial and ethnic American literature, I examine how novels imagine characters and communities across divides of nation, race, gender, class, and language. In many accounts, transcultural writing has been chastised for arrogantly asserting imperial authority and dismissed as the projection of cultural fantasy. My theory of cosmopolitan writing, or what I call cosmopoetics, suggests how fiction might avoid the tyranny of such imperialist knowledge. Although the problem of transcultural writing admits no perfect solution, the novels I examine wrestle valiantly with, and occasionally surmount, the challenge of speaking beyond their own cultural location.
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