Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Where Are They All Going? Ways of the Cosmopolitan Mind
	Roots and Mobilities
	A Cosmopolitical Justice
	Creating Cultural Cosmopolitanism
	Toward Cosmopolitan Thought Experiments
	Notes
Part 1 Cosmopolitan Theories, Contemporary Debates
	1 The Paradox of the Cosmopolitan: Individuality, Globalism and the Indefinite Openness of the World
		Dis-locations
		Toward a Critique of Pure Cosmopolitanism
		Surplus of Sense: The World as Play
		Invisible Towns and the Double of Life
		Notes
	2 A Postmodern Mappa Mundi: Cosmopolitanism, Heterotopia, and the World System
		The Space of the Cosmopolis
		Compulsory Civilization
		Of (M)other Spaces
		Charybdis, Or, the Mediterranean
		Conclusion
	3 Exilic and Refugee Cosmopolitanism: The Migrant as a Political Subject
		Notes
	4 Édouard Glissant and Creole Cosmopolitanization
		Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitanization
		Creolization as a Theoretical Perspective
		Creolization as a Theoretical Breakthrough
		Approaching Cosmopolitanism Through Glissant: A Creole Cosmopolitanization
		Creolization as a Process of Inclusion
		Some Concluding Remarks
		Notes
	5 For an Earthly and Cosmic Justice: Some Voices Raised Against Climatic Walls
		The Walls of Noe, the Landlords, and the People They Displace
		Wings and Roots
		To Live in Chaosmos, Or Welcoming What Does Not Yet Have a Name
		Notes
	6 Reaching Out to the World Against the Grain: The Relevance of Cosmopolitanism in Our Time
		Challenges to Cosmopolitanism at the Present Time
		Kant On Nature, Violence, and the Cosmopolitan Right
		A Plea for Cosmopolitan Comparativism
		A Cosmopolitan Vision From the East
		Note
Part 2 Cosmopolitics in Literature
	7 A Mixed Lot On the Margins: Mimetic Desire and Native Impersonations
		A Home in the East?
		How to Become “One of Them” in a Colonial Situation
		A Border Running Through Us?
		Deconstructing Nativism
		Multiple We Stand
		A Cosmopolitan Caucasus?
		Endless and Unfinished Metamorphoses
	8 Being Berber, Or How to Be Condemned to Cosmopolitanism: Jean Amrouche (1906–1962)
		The Berber Question
		What’s in a Name?
		Chants in Bi-Langue
		Notes
	9 Global South Aesthetics of Anxiety: (Un)rooted Cosmopolitanism in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s El Sueño Del Retorno and …
		Castellanos Moya’s Pessimistic, Unrooted Cosmopolitanism in El Sueño Del Retorno
		Roy’s Optimistic, Rooted Cosmopolitanism in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
		Hopeful Versus Cynical Cosmopolitanism
		Notes
	10 Hei-Ren-Hei-Hu: Be/Longing and E/Migration in the Work of a Chinese Dissident
		Toward a Maverick Cosmopolitan Poetics of Migration and Homelessness
		Early Promise and Fame, Smothered By “Heavenly Peace”
		Be/Longing and Exile, Through the Prisms of Trauma and Pain
		Notes
	11 Breakthrough Or Breakdown?: Transcultural Communication in Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Stanislaw ...
		Gender and Communication
		Speculative Fiction as an Anthropological Tool
		Translatables and Untranslatables Across Worlds
		Notes
	12 Cosmopolitan Feminism/Feminist Cosmopolitanism in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
		Cosmopolitanism and Feminism
		Cosmopolitan Feminism, Gendered Subalternity, and Family Loyalty
		Cosmopolitan Feminism and “Rooted Cosmopolitan British Muslim Identity”
		Cosmopolitanism: A Response to Terrorism
		Notes
	13 Xenophilic Queerness in Virginia Woolf and Reinaldo Arenas
		Legitimizing Selective Memory
		Against Progress
		Ulysses Versus Tiresias
		Note
Part 3 The Teachings of Live Cosmopolitanism
	14 Cosmopolitanism, Ghostpitality, and Some (Un)critical Intimacies
		A Book In/as Context
		Learning From the Reader
		Dealing With the Ghosts of the Unforgivable
		Rogues and Incorruptible (Im)Purity
		Notes
	15 Making Worlds With Things: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism, Performance, and Iconic Objects From the Border
		The Border as a Stoa: From Lessig’s Net95 to Plato’s Laws and Back
		Cultivating Worlds Aesthetically: Imagination, Cosmopolitanism, the Border
		Affective Thinking From Indonesia as Borderland: Iconic Objects From the Border
		Iconic But Not Universal: Hybridization Through Performance
		Into the Cosmos
	16 Euroglottogonia, Or Exercises in Continental Cosmopolitanism
		Rewording a Continent
		Europe in Transit
		Euroglottogonia
	17 Cosmopolis Today: Comparative Literature and Its Diacritical Marks
		Theory With an Accent
		Spacing Culture for World Literatures
		The Ethical Cosmopolite
		Can the Ultraminor Afford Cosmopolitanism?
		Nationalizing Internationalism in Comparative Literature
		Notes
	18 Transreading Across Cultures: American Students Decipher a Modern Chinese Classic
		Introduction
		Experiment I: Transreading a Translated Poem
			—Prompts and Close Reading
		Experiment II: Transreading Toward the Original
			—Prompts and Literary Translation
		Experiment III: Transreading Into a New Original
			—Prompts and Creative Writing
				Concept
				Material
				Assignment
				Outcome and Analysis
				Witt’s Poem
		Tim’s Poem
		Andrew’s Poem
		Kelsey’s Poem
		Abigail’s Poems
		Steven’s Poems
		Findings
		Conclusion
		Notes
	19 Caged Childhoods?: Human Capabilities, Migrating Cosmopolitanisms, and Educational Experimentation
		The Borderlands of Childhood
		Educating Émile in the Age of the Anthropocene
		From the Prehistoric Child to the Postcolonial Child
		Cognitive Capabilities in Childhood
		Notes
Part 4 A Writer’s Meditation On Migrancy and Cosmopolitanism
	20 Letters From Umbria and Other Places, Summer 2019: An Interview With Christine Lorre-Johnston
		Prologue
		“Letters From Umbria and Other Places, Summer 2019”
		Note
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Index