Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel

Cosmopolitan Vision of Home, Subjectivity 73 Aunt Bea when he was sixteen years old. Tellingly, this was an expe- rience that Wi ...

74 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel man whom her father—and most of the community—seem to dis- approve of in their ...

Cosmopolitan Vision of Home, Subjectivity 75 authoritative narrative. This prospect of literally having to ignore Stern’s narrat ...

76 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel human subjectivity, the cosmopolitan view of the universal subject requires a h ...

2. C o s m o p o l i t a n i s m a n d M a t e r i a l Ethics in J. M. Coetzee I t is widely appreciated that physical suffering ...

78 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel Coetzee achieves this by employing sophisticated stylistic tech- niques that ma ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 79 ‘man’.”^3 Such a deconstructive rejection of the dichotomy has found expression in other ...

80 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel great effect in her discussion of the novel. In keeping with a central concern ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 81 Jonathan Friedman, such conciliatory values are expressed in the cosmopolitan agent’s pre ...

82 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel this presence of shame actually serves to consolidate the very idea of Othernes ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 83 social context in which Barton and Friday live. Such a context subsumes their roles into ...

84 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel is established, with the latter taking on the function of an unor- thodox nurse ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 85 and where the local populace reaps the harvest of crops grown on “communal land” (p. 6). ...

86 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel the Magistrate is placed on a path on which a violent confrontation with the Em ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 87 the most notable example.^27 However, as well as evoking an image of Nazi violence, the M ...

88 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel feel genuine sympathy for the figure he sees standing “in the shade of the barr ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 89 Whereas the characters’ first exchange reflects the Magistrate’s unambiguous sympathy (“I ...

90 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel to etch the words “ENEMY” onto the backs of the “barbarian” cap- tives before h ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 91 This reading of the Magistrate’s actions once again dovetails with the theoretical work o ...

92 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel On being asked by the Magistrate how he knows that his use of tor- ture is not ...