Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators

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The first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism and multiculturaism.

Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediatorsargues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard's concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the elements within multiculturalism that have been forgotten in its contemporary denigration. Gunew attaches this discussion to debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade, creating a framework for re-evaluating post-multicultural and Indigenous writers in settler colonies such as Canada and Australia. She links these writers with transnational writers across diasporas from Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, China and India to construct a new framework for literary and cultural studies.

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"At a time when global media and markets give us the illusion of belonging to a shared world, the book acts as a sober reminder that the nagging question to the 'strangers', ... has shifted from 'where are you coming from' to 'what do we do with them now'"
Chantal Zabus, "Recherche littraire" Literary Research Vol 34 (t 2018 / Summer 2018).

Author Bio

Sneja Gunew has taught in England, Australia and Canada. She has published widely on multicultural, postcolonial and feminist critical theory.