Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in Literature.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures
• Author: Jackson, Elizabeth.
• Place / Publishing House: Saint-Laurent : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 pages)

"This book investigates literary representations and self-representations of people with cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend categories of migrancy and diaspora. Part I focuses on the ways in which cosmopolitan characters are represented in selected nov...

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Working Definitions
• 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 On Cosmopolitanisms and Mobilities
• 2.2 On Third Culture Kids (tck s)
• 2.3 On Literary Cosmopolitanisms
• 3 Overview of the Book
• 3.1 Part 1: Beyond Diaspora in Literary Fiction
• 3.2 Part 2: Beyond Diaspora in Autobiographical Narratives
• Part 1 Beyond Diaspora in Literary Fiction
• Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Attitudes and Cosmopolitan Identities in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines
• 1 The Shadow Lines and National Borders
• 2 Cosmopolitan Attitudes and Cosmopolitan Identities
• 3 Ila as a "Third Culture Kid"
• 4 Gender, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitan Identity
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 2 English and Cosmopolitan Identities in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, and in John le Carré's The Night Manager and Agent Running in the Field
• 1 Englishness and Cosmopolitanism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945)
• 2 Cosmopolitan Characters as English Spies in John le Carré's The Night Manager (1993) and Agent Running in the Field (2019)
• 3 Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Identity, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
• 1 Names, Tribes, and Nationalities in the Desert and in the Villa
• 2 Selfhood and the Construction of Group Identity
• 3 The Feuds of the World
• 4 Conclusion
• Chapter 4 The Expatriate Child in Contemporary Fiction: Forward in Time in Eileen Drew's The Ivory Crocodile and Backward in Time in Jane Alison's Natives and Exotics
• 1 White Guilt in Eileen Drew's The Ivory Crocodile
• 2 Discontinuity and Disruption, Borders and Boundaries, and the Kindness of Servants
• 3 Citizenship, Identity, and Transplantation
• 4 Recurring Motifs and Their Thematic Significance.
• 5 Being Inquisitive instead of Acquisitive in Approaching the Natural World
• 6 Conclusion
• Part 2 Beyond Diaspora in Autobiographical Narratives
• Chapter 5 Autobiography, Identity, and the Narration of Global Childhoods: Edward Said and Nadia Owusu
• 1 The Nature of Autobiography and Its Relation to Fiction
• 2 Identity and Autobiography
• 3 Edward Said
• 4 Nadia Owusu
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 6 "Third Culture Kid" Memoirs: Constructing an Alternative Category of Identity
• 1 Recurring Themes and Identity Construction
• 2 Narrative Features
• 3 Conclusion
• Chapter 7 The Expatriate Child and the Patriarch: Identity and Father Figures in Three Memoirs of Growing Up Global
• 1 Framing the Narratives
• 2 The Imperial Context
• 3 Fathers
• 4 Mothers and Gender Issues
• 5 Mobility, the Expatriate Child, and (Re)Patriation
• 6 Construction of Identity
• 7 Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Material
• Index.