Elif Toprak Sakiz

Broschiertes Buch

Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Elif Toprak Sak¿z 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-44997-0
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9783031449970
• ISBN-10: 3031449975
• Artikelnr.: 72173964