At home in the world : cosmopolitanism now
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At home in the world : cosmopolitanism now
（Convergences : inventories of the present / Edward W. Said, general editor）
Harvard University Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780674050303
Description
The concept of global cultures such as postcolonial, hybrid, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism are common. This book aims to expose the drama played out under the guise of globalism and to present a critique of cosomopolitanism, while exploring forces acting against globalism.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Claims to global culture - America abroad: Du Bois's "Colour and Democracy"
- the public face of the "Third-World" writer
- states of theory and the absence of states. Part 2 Cosmopolitanism and method: explaining the obvious - Paul Nizan
- cultural studies and colonial progress
- Anna Deveare Smith, or authenticity. Part 3 The culture of the transnational corporation: if the nation is dead, why doesn't Henry Kissinger know it?
- Julia Kristeva as George Orwell - the 1950s in the 1990s
- managerial training manuals - transnational nationalism. Part 4 Cosmopolitanism and the explorer's eye: the sublimation of poverty - New York's lower east side
- GATT poetics and the travelling critic
- the literary in the light of the Nobel prize
- a few thoughts on what the postcolonial leaves out. Part 5 Cosmopolitanism's American base - C.L.R. James in New York, 1950: socialist desire - Ernst Bloch in America
- cosmopolitanism, America and the Cold War
- the struggle for happiness
- James's art
- exceptional Americanism. Part 6 The world Cuban - Alejo Carpentier and Cuban popular music
- from Paris to Havana
- ethnographic surrealism - the red and the black
- salsa and the Cuban image
- reading mass culture through youth
- the indigenous and the in-between
- conclusion.
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Description
From every quarter we hear of a new global culture, postcolonial, hybrid, announcing the death of nationalism, the arrival of cosmopolitanism. But under the drumbeat attending this trend, Timothy Brennan detects another, altogether different sound. Polemical, passionate, certain to provoke, his book exposes the drama being played out under the guise of globalism. A bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself cosmopolitanism, it also takes note of the many countervailing forces acting against globalism in its facile, homogenizing sense.
The developments Brennan traces occur in many places--editorial pages, policy journals, corporate training manuals, and, primarily, in the arts. His subject takes him from George Orwell to Julia Kristeva, from Subcommandante Marcos to Julio Cortazar, from Ernst Bloch to contemporary apologists for transnational capitalism and "liberation management," from "third world" writing to the Nobel Prize, with little of critical theory or cultural studies left untouched in between. Brennan gives extended treatment to two exemplary figures: the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, whose work suggests an alternative approach to cultural studies; and the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, whose appreciation of Cuban popular music cuts through the usual distinctions between mass and elite culture.
A critical call to arms, At Home in the World summons intellectuals and scholars to reinvigorate critical cultural studies. In stripping the false and heedless from the new cosmopolitanism, Brennan revitalizes the idea.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Claims to Global Culture: America Abroad Du Bois's Color and Democracy and the "Red" Color Line The Public face of the "Third-World" Writer States of Theory and the Absence of States The Contradictions of Binary Thinking: Cosmopolitanism and Method Nizan Fights the Watchdogs: The Obvious Must Be Explained Cultural Studies and Colonial Progress Anna Deveare Smith, or Authenticity without Apologoes The Culture of the Transnational Corporation If the Nation Is Dead, Why Doesn't Henry Kissinger Know It? George Orwell as Julia Kristeva: The 1950s in the 1990s Mangerial Training Manuals: What Is National in the Transnational Gatt Poetics and the Traveling Critic: Cosmopolitanism and the Explorer's Eye The Sublimation of Poverty: New York's Lower East Side "Marcos" and Cortazar: Two Alternatives to Contemporary Travel Narrative The Literary in the Light of the Nobel Prize: Morrison and Walcott A Few Thoughts on What the Postcolonial Leaves Out Cosmopolitanism's American Base: C. L. R. James in New York, 1950 Socialist Desire: Ernst Bloch in America Cosmopolitanism, America, and the Cold War The Struggle for Happiness-Winning in Desperate Times by Loving What Is James's Art Exceptional Americanism and the U.S. Mass Culture Debate The World Cuban: Alejo Carpentier and Cuban Popular Music From Paris to Havana Ethnographic Surrealism: The Red and the Black Salsa and the Cuban Image Reading Mass Culture through Youth The Indigenous and the In-Between Conclusion Notes Index
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