
Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with...

Acknowledgements Introduction: Sound Upon Silence Competing Cosmopolitanisms Cosmopolitan Criticism Late Yeats: 'Beating upon the Wall of the Irish Free State' J.M. Coetzee and the 'War on Terror' Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses 'Listening for the Echo':...