Cosmopolitanism at Home
Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9002468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shameem Black (0000-0002-2782-0012, Yale University, New Haven, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 45-65 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989406068734 |
| OpenAlex | W2094444528 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
What does it mean to be at home in the world? This essay explores how modern cosmopolitanism might paradoxically emerge through an embrace of domesticity and kinship. I argue that cosmopolitanism should be less invested in a traditional idea of feeling “at home” in the world and more committed to recognizing “the world” through the home. As Amitav Ghosh's fiction illuminates the intimacy between the familial and the foreign, his work suggests that a robust cosmopolitan sensibility requires close attention to the energies of domestic life. As Ghosh's work teaches us to understand the home and the world as collaborative rather than competing realities, his concern for home enables a contemporary cosmopolitanism that critiques masculinist and imperialist visions of world citizenship
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Cosmopolitanism · Kinship · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sensibility · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
Rethinking Postsecularism through Postcolonialism
Home As a Mobile and Flexible Domestic Space in Amitav Ghosh's Alternative Ideas of Cosmopolitanism
From nationalism to cosmopolitan (imagi)nation
Cosmopolitan Attitudes and Cosmopolitan Identities in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
Travels Outside the Empire
Beyond the Backwaters
S
India
Cosmopolitanism Within
Constructions of Australia in pro‐ and anti‐asylum seeker political discourse
Cosmopolitan nationalism
Gender performance and cosmopolitan practice
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |