From Édouard Glissant’s “The Open Boat” to the Age of Mass Migration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: New Cosmopolitanisms: Rethinking Race, Geography, and Belonging 1
4. I: Rootedness and the New Cosmopolitanism: Sovereignty, Hosts, Guests and Hospitality
5. Africans in Calais: Migrants, Rights, and French Cosmopolitanism 26
6. “In the Tangled Lily-bed”: Rhizomatic Textuality and Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood 43
7. Envoy to the World: Nomadic Cosmopolitanism in Yusef Komunyakaa’s The Emperor of Water Clocks 59
8. The Pastiche of Discrepant “Minoritarian” Voices in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss 76
9. II: Minority Bodies
10. Normative Materialist Cosmopolitanism 90
11. From Édouard Glissant’s “The Open Boat” to the Age of Mass Migration 114
12. Men in Eugenic Times: Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring and the (Im)possibility of Cosmopolitan Friendship 128
13. Across the Atlantic and Beyond: Tracing Cosmopolitan Agendas in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes 146
14. III: Minoritarian Mobilities
15. Migrant Women’s Bodies in Transit: From Sub-Saharan Africa to Spain in Real Life and Film 162
16. From a Japanese Notebook: Afro-Asian Critical Cosmopolitanisms in William Demby’s 1950s Reportage from Postwar Japan 192
17. Lost in Transnation: Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go 207
18. Truncated Cosmopolitanisms: Post-apartheid Literary Identities in Ivan Vladislavić’s The Exploded View 220
19. IV: Spaces and Vectors: Migration, Hybridity, Creolization
20. The Trope of Displacement, the Disruption of Space: Cuba, a Moveable Nation 240
21. An Angry, Mixed Race Cosmopolitanism: Race, Privilege, Poetic Identity, and Community in Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina and Thrall 254
22. The Cosmopolitan Reality of Polish American Families 275
23. Global Metropolis and the City of Neighborhoods: Polish Immigrants and New York City’s Two Cosmopolitanisms 293
24. V: The Powers and Perils of Cultural Expression
25. Black English and the New Cosmopolitanism: Karima 2G’s Linguistic Creativity as a Transethnic Performative Practice 308
26. Cosmopolitan Hospitality and Accented Crossing: Forging an Ethics of Listening with Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Artworks 328
27. Imagining Something Better: Rolas from My Border Hi-Fi 344
28. “A White Slave”: Albinism in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings 366
29. Contributors on Their Cosmopolitan Experiences: A Postscript 379
30. Contributors on Their Cosmopolitan Experiences: A Postscript 386
31. Index 391