Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel

Introduction 13 its categorization, unified within a single philosophical whole. As Richardt Grossman explains, “Ontology asks a ...

14 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel understanding history and its relation to human existence, but that nevertheles ...

Introduction 15 Phillips highlights the manner in which the complexities of this relationship (between individual and historical ...

16 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel subjectivity occurs in “the margins” of history and involves the individual “ru ...

Introduction 17 has persistently returned to motifs that illustrate both the corpo- real nature of social power and the extent t ...

18 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel the Marxian concepts that attend the term’s more conventional use. Focusing on ...

Introduction 19 that appear to be, and indeed should be read as, inverted images of each other. In Seymour Levov’s case, this ha ...

20 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel they do so using techniques that play upon the reader’s capacit y for empathy. ...

1. A C o s m o p o l i t a n V i s i o n o f Home and Subjectivity in Caryl Phillips C aryl Phillips’s novels have largely been ...

22 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel Although it is not a primary focus of the discussion that follows, in analyzing ...

Cosmopolitan Vision of Home, Subjectivity 23 strategies echo more conventional literary procedures of defamiliar- ization and es ...

24 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel with Ren é e Schatteman, Phillips echoes Foucault’s insistence that the subject ...

Cosmopolitan Vision of Home, Subjectivity 25 uses in achieving this effect in Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood is intertext ...

26 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel whose aesthetic properties and content have clearly been shaped by the major ev ...

Cosmopolitan Vision of Home, Subjectivity 27 already historically entangled collection of narratives are the archaic voices that ...

28 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel given cultural or social experience. This effectively promotes what he labels t ...

Cosmopolitan Vision of Home, Subjectivity 29 One such event is the physical assault her sister endures on her way to school, the ...

30 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel memories, thereby problematizing an easy empathic connection between reader and ...

Cosmopolitan Vision of Home, Subjectivity 31 she tells Louis, a rare friend and fellow é migr é , that she keeps “see- ing a gir ...

32 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel Rudy Williams is another character in the novel for whom it is occasionally dif ...