At Home in the World - Softcover

Brennan, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674050312 ISBN 13: 9780674050310

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1997

Synopsis

From every quarter we hear of a new global culture, postcolonial, hybrid, announcing the death of nationalism, the arrival of cosmopolitanism. But under the drumbeat attending this trend, Timothy Brennan detects another, altogether different sound. Polemical, passionate, certain to provoke, his book exposes the drama being played out under the guise of globalism. A bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself cosmopolitanism, it also takes note of the many countervailing forces acting against globalism in its facile, homogenizing sense. A critical call to arms, At Home in the World summons intellectuals and scholars to reinvigorate critical cultural studies. In stripping the false and headless from the new cosmopolitanism, Brennan revitalizes the idea.

About this title

About the Author

Timothy Brennan is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674050312
• ISBN 13: 9780674050310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384