Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

" Patell' s cosmopolitan readings of a wide range of works from Shakespeare' s Othello to Claude Lanzmann' s Shoah cover topics from historical fiction to animal studies. Addressing the role of world literature and multiculturalism, this pedagogically helpful book offers a fuller understanding of how to approach ' global texts' and their contexts in the challenging yet creative tension between cultural familiarity and difference. " - Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, USA