Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction

This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanisms transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmoflneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan characters urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwans Saturday (2005), Zadie Smiths NW (2012), Salman Rushdies The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguros Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central.