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Miasta globalne i kosmopolis

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Gupta S.

Rocznik Komparatystyczny

2012

vol. 3

p.177- 212

Suman Gupta’s essay “Global Cities and Cosmopolis” was originally published as the chapter of his book Globalization andLiterature (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009), presenting the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies. In “Global Cities and Cosmopolis” Gupta focuses on various representations of global cities in literature (especially, those of London and New York in the novels by contemporary English and American authors, for instance: Gautam Malkani, Don DeLillo, Patrick McGrath, Colson Whitehead or Richard Powers). Gupta introduces the idea of a global consciousness and studies how it has developed. He also defines global cities and analyzes the similarities and differences in their depictions. Gupta refers to such theories of urban space as Jonathan Raban’s idea of a ‘soft city’, Saskia Sassen’s influential sociological accounts of New York, London and Tokyo or theories of cosmopolitanism by Seyla Benhabib or Timothy Brennan. The author is interested in the “transactions” of a global city and their relation to literature; he presents the structures of global market and global terrorism and their influence on literary production. Moreover, Gupta discusses the changes in concepts of literature and literariness, especially – the idea of authorship in the era of “virtual cosmopolis”. He analyses new literary genres of Internet literature such as blogs and web novels (on the example of Geoff Ryman’s literary experiment) and compares them to the concepts of authorship and subjectivity of “traditional” (i.e. printed) books or diaries/journals.

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