Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational : Literature and the New Europe / / César Domínguez and Theo D'haen.

• Superior document: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 79
• Author: Domƒinguez, Cƒesar.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 79.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; “Introduction” /; “Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered” /; “Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence” /; “Rooting “New European Literature”: A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism” /; “Native Cosmopolitans” /; “European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality” /; “Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe” /; “Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories” /; “Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon” /; “The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel?” /; “Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain” /; “A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the “Englishness” of English Literature” /; “How to Become a “Rudeboy”: Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani” /; Notes on Contributors /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004300651
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: César Domínguez and Theo D'haen.

In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the “New Europe”. Contributors: Susana Araújo, Sibylle Baumbach, Helena Buescu, John Crosetti, Maria DiBattista, César Domínguez, Soren Frank, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, Maria Esteves Pereira, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aysegul Turan.