Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in Literature

by Elizabeth Jackson

This book investigates literary representations and self-representations of people with cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend categories of migrancy and diaspora. Part I focuses on the ways in which cosmopolitan characters are represented in selected novels, from the debauched Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited, to the victimized Ila in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004514317
• ISBN13: 9789004514317
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 184 Pages