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Author:

Stanton, Katherine, 1973-

Title:

Cosmopolitan fictions : ethics, politics, and global change in the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J.M. Coetzee / Katherine Stanton.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

vii, 103 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ondaatje, Michael,--1943---Criticism and interpretation.
Ishiguro, Kazuo,--1954---Criticism and interpretation.
Coetzee, J. M.,--1940---Criticism and interpretation.
Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Social change in literature.
Ethics in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-97) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: contemporary cosmopolitan fictions -- Foreign feeling : Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled and the new Europe -- Criminal justice in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Ethical ennui and the AIDS epidemic in Jamaica Kincaid's My brother -- History is larger than goodwill? : restitution and redistributive justice in J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron and disgrace -- Afterword: "To touch the future on its hither side."

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

ISBN:

9780415975421
9780415975421 (alk. paper)
0415975425 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61362113

LCCN:

2005024437

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)