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This highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community.

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Introduction; I. IMAGINING COSMOPOLITICS: 1. Families against the world: Ian McEwan; 2. James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads; II. TOUR DU MONDE: 3. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think; III. CREATING THE WORLD: 4. Global noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru; 5. Suburban worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor; Coda: the cosmopolitan imagination; Bibliography.

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 5/7/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780748640034, 978-0748640034
      ISBN10: 0748640037
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; I. IMAGINING COSMOPOLITICS: 1. Families against the world: Ian McEwan; 2. James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads; II. TOUR DU MONDE: 3. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think; III. CREATING THE WORLD: 4. Global noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru; 5. Suburban worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor; Coda: the cosmopolitan imagination; Bibliography.

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