Cosmopolitan Geographies

"Lively, smart, compelling, this book reclaims and redefines cosmopolitanism in a wide range of periods and places. Its first-rate essays will be of keen interest to anyone grappling with questions of transnational and intercultural experience." -- Jahan Ramazani, author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English"Cosmopolitan Geographies suggests that the geographical diversity as well as the long history of 'cosmopolitanism' is absolutely vital for imagining a non-ethnocentric international humanism today. The essays in this important volume bring together a rich variety of historical contexts, literary practices, and political imperatives in order to provoke us to rethink the relationship between national cultures and internationalism, and between cultural difference and universalism." -- Ania Loomba, Professor of English, University of Illinois and author of Colonialism/Postcolonialism

• Introduction, Vinay Dharwadker; Chapter 1 The Village of the Liberal Managerial Class, Bruce Robbins; Chapter 2 “The Metropol and the Mayster-Toun”, Robert R. Edwards; Chapter 3 The Cartographic Imagination, David Harvey; Chapter 4 Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, Universalism and Pathos, Sharon Marcus; Chapter 5 Chinese Cosmopolitanism in Two Senses and Postcolonial National Memory, Pheng Cheah; Chapter 6 Theater and Cosmopolitanism, Una Chaudhuri; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitan Reading, K. Anthony Appiah;