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dc.contributor.advisorCaminero-Santangelo, Byron
dc.contributor.authorConsole-Soican, Paula S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-11T22:26:39Z
dc.date.available2017-12-11T22:26:39Z
dc.date.issued2015-13-31
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14398
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/25626
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation unites four literary accounts from four different parts of the world under the concept of extraterritorial literature - literature by and about exile. Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (India-England, 1988); Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (Zanzibar-England, 1996); Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (Antigua-US, 1990); and Hector Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier (Guatemala-US, 1998) are brought together under the claim that transnational, extraterritorial literature is not a superior discourse but a momentous analysis of contemporary imperialism. A central argument in this dissertation is that writers who cross borders and who relocate from formerly colonized places to imperial metropolitan centers in the West use the transgressive figure of the exile, an unaccommodated, resistant other, in order to provide immanent critique -- to put histories, cultures, and ideologies face to face. This literary figure helps us understand that the alliance with people not only of the same kind but fundamentally different from us is necessary in reaching the real height of the self that exile promotes. The dialectic of the imperial mind – the Western fascination with the exotic other, the European Project of describing itself by way of describing the colonized; and also the dialectic of the colonized mind – that which has become “parasitically obsessed” with the West as a colonial power, are central terms to this project. The social and literary subjects that this dialectic produces must be seen in relation to an ideology of hope surrounding the exiled secular intellectual whose role is to promote a democratic ideal. Through these postcolonial Luciferic characters, the authors offer a meditation on global ethics, a cosmopolitan discourse that is not only necessary but also inevitable in today’s age of increased multiculturalism.
dc.format.extent138 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectEnglish literature
dc.subjectcosmopolitanism
dc.subjectethics
dc.subjectliterary ethic
dc.subjectlucifer
dc.subjectmulticulturalism
dc.titleGlobal Ethics and Postcolonial Lucifers
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberAnatol, Giselle
dc.contributor.cmtememberCaminero-Santangelo, Marta
dc.contributor.cmtememberMyers, Garth
dc.contributor.cmtememberHayes, Michelle
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineEnglish
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
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dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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