...Bianca Leggett Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature , by Spencer Robert , Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . 225 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature by Robert Spencer Basingstoke...

...Brian Gollnick Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America , by Siskind Mariano . Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 2014 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Mariano Siskind’s Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity...

...Charles W. Pollard Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 HI Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott’s Discrepant Cosmopolitan Modernism Charles W. Pollard Consider the following description as a question on a final exam in a course on modernist literature...

...Patrick Bixby Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett , by Pearson Nels . University Press of Florida , 2015 (paperback 2017). 179 pages. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 Nels Pearson opens Irish...

...Philip Tsang This essay illustrates a “negative cosmopolitanism” in V. S. Naipaul’s work. Both defenders and critics of cosmopolitanism readily identify the concept with the European philosophical tradition. Arguing that European thinkers do not have a patent on cosmopolitanism, I contend...

...Kalyan Nadiminti Nabokov, Rushdie and the Transnational Imagination: Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds , by Trousdale Rachel , New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . 252 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review Imagining Rooted Cosmopolitanism Nabokov, Rushdie...

...Sam Wiseman Through her work, the Dorset-born Mary Butts (1890–1937) expresses a quintessentially modernist tension between a deep sense of attachment to rural England and the allure of cosmopolitan modernity. This article argues that the adventure and power promised by the latter inform Butts’s...

...Paul Stasi Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation , by Walkowitz Rebecca , New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . 288 pages. A Test Case for Cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation by Rebecca Walkowitz...

...Caroline Miles Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism , by Duck Leigh Anne , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2006 . 340 pages. The South, the Nation, and Global Cosmopolitanism The Nation’s Region...

...Nels C. Pearson Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Nels C. Pearson Elizabeth Bowen and the New Cosmopolitanism Nels C. Pearson The weight of being herself fell on her like a clock striking. She saw the clothes she would put on to go home in hanging over...

...Amy Clukey Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Modernist Cosmopolitanisms and Jean Rhys’s Quartet “No country really now”: Modernist Cosmopolitanisms and Jean Rhys’s Quartet Amy Clukey My father was Welsh—very. My mother’s family was Creole— what we call Creole. My...

... history in larger philosophical and political questions, in a cosmopolitan resistance to American puritanical norms, and in knowing reflection on contemporary discussions of representation and image. Gidget is a surprisingly postmodern textual space of disruption and juxtaposition that compellingly...

... of Japanese cosmopolitanism and imperial modernization, while focalizing the possibilities and limitations of engaging Asian colonial modernity with European forms. In localizing the European epiphany, and ambivalently acknowledging Japanese versions of it, the Korean modernists generate significant irony...

...Robert Jackson Violet America: Regional Cosmopolitanism in US Fiction Since the Great Depression , by Arthur Jason , University of Iowa Press , 2013 . 184 pages. Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies , by Smith Jon , University...

... how profoundly the relationship with Langston Hughes contributed to the South African writers’ development of an urban, cosmopolitan identity at a time when the apartheid government was determined to “fossilize” Africans into “tribal inventions,” in Can Themba’s phrase (qtd. in Nixon 28...

... and political views, Arnold Ben­ nett and his work came to be regarded as essentially provincial over the course of the twentieth century. This characterization put him at odds with high modernism and its cosmopolitan exponents, even when they became committed to a certain insularity of their own...

... of homely comforts (and first-class luxury) for those inside, as it seeks to isolate itself from the unpredictability of the outside world. In this way, they offer two competing models of cosmopolitanism—the one embrac- 11 Randi Saloman ing the unrestricted coming together of various people...

...- emplifies imagist poetic strategies, with its terse portraits of flowers, landscapes, and coastal inhabitants. Responding to the poems’ settings, contemporary scholarship often places Sea Garden outside the modernist debates about national or cosmopolitan literary movements and instead...

... as a necessary interlocutor in daily life that challenges ideals of cosmopolitan existence and shapes the ways individuals see and react to one another. Through both structure and character, Banjo explores the relationship between state-imposed identity and explanatory narrative. I will first...

.... The strongest community in the novel is that of the Hindu nationalists, led by Raman “Mainduck” Fielding, a carica­ ture of the leader Bal Thackeray, and Rushdie holds them responsible for the transformation of his beloved cosmopolitan Bombay into sectar­ ian Mumbai. Rushdie therefore turns back...