Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities in literature / Elizabeth Jackson.
| Author/creator | Jackson, Elizabeth, 1958- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cross/Cultures, 09241426 ; volume 219 |
| Abstract | "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 novels, from the debauched Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited, to the victimized Ila in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines, to John le Carré's undefinable spies. Part II focuses on self-representations of people with a cosmopolitan upbringing, in the form of autobiographical narratives by well-known authors such as Barack Obama and Edward Said, along with lesser-known writers, all of whom "write back" to the ways in which they have at times been stereotyped and othered in literary fiction and public discourse"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Jackson, Elizabeth, 1958- Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities in literature Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004514317 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022037499 |
| ISBN | 9789004527126 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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