New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity : : Cultural Perspectives.

• Author: Luczak, Ewa Barbara.
• TeilnehmendeR: Pochmara, Anna.; Dayal, Samir.
• Place / Publishing House: Warschau/Berlin : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (413 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: New Cosmopolitanisms: Rethinking Race, Geography, and Belonging -- I: Rootedness and the New Cosmopolitanism: Sovereignty, Hosts, Guests and Hospitality -- Africans in Calais: Migrants, Rights, and French Cosmopolitanism -- "In the Tangled Lily-bed": Rhizomatic Textuality and Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood -- Envoy to the World: Nomadic Cosmopolitanism in Yusef Komunyakaa's The Emperor of Water Clocks -- The Pastiche of Discrepant "Minoritarian" Voices in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss -- II: Minority Bodies -- Normative Materialist Cosmopolitanism -- From Édouard Glissant's "The Open Boat" to the Age of Mass Migration -- Men in Eugenic Times: Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring and the (Im)possibility of Cosmopolitan Friendship -- Across the Atlantic and Beyond: Tracing Cosmopolitan Agendas in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes -- III: Minoritarian Mobilities -- Migrant Women's Bodies in Transit: From Sub-Saharan Africa to Spain in Real Life and Film -- From a Japanese Notebook: Afro-Asian Critical Cosmopolitanisms in William Demby's 1950s Reportage from Postwar Japan -- Lost in Transnation: Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go -- Truncated Cosmopolitanisms: Post-apartheid Literary Identities in Ivan Vladislavić's The Exploded View -- IV: Spaces and Vectors: Migration, Hybridity, Creolization -- The Trope of Displacement, the Disruption of Space: Cuba, a Moveable Nation -- An Angry, Mixed Race Cosmopolitanism: Race, Privilege, Poetic Identity, and Community in Natasha Trethewey's Beyond Katrina and Thrall -- The Cosmopolitan Reality of Polish American Families -- Global Metropolis and the City of Neighborhoods: Polish Immigrants and New York City's Two Cosmopolitanisms -- V: The Powers and Perils of Cultural Expression.

Black English and the New Cosmopolitanism: Karima 2G's Linguistic Creativity as a Transethnic Performative Practice -- Cosmopolitan Hospitality and Accented Crossing: Forging an Ethics of Listening with Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Artworks -- Imagining Something Better: Rolas from My Border Hi-Fi -- "A White Slave": Albinism in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings -- Contributors on Their Cosmopolitan Experiences: A Postscript -- Contributors on Their Cosmopolitan Experiences: A Postscript -- Index.