...This concluding chapter reflects on the importance of multiple attachments and identifications and examines the meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary global world, stressing the utility of diaspora as a framework for understanding immigration processes that is applicable to diverse...

... within these debates over the years are emerging minority cultures struggling to question, represent, and even transcend dominant interpretations of ethnic minorities, espousing the cosmopolitan ideal of sameness across difference, which echoes Melville's own character in Moby-Dick...

... of cosmopolitanism. The chapter also explores the antithesis to this notion in “counter-cosmopolitanism”—the unwillingness to question and possibly adjust basic assumptions. The hostility toward multiculturalism voiced by conservative educators and politicians in the United States during the 1980s...

...While imperialists were often dominant among the voices speaking to young people, jingoes did not entirely control the conversation. Anti-imperialism also found a home in certain segments of the literary market. Contrary impulses toward multilateralism, cosmopolitanism, and pacifism competed...

...Cosmopolitanism is less an ideal than a description. It merely assumes that wherever and whenever history has set peoples in motion across national boundaries, sometimes by force, many of them and their descendants will show signs of divided loyalties and a hybrid identity. Cosmopolitanism should...

... of cosmopolitanism onto the film; alternatively, the chapter insists on reading the film within its more local context, situating it as a contemporary expression of Martí’s foundational yet anxious nationalism. The theme of seduction in Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate...

... generate among viewers the capacity for flexible attachments to more than one community. They facilitate a cosmopolitanism that asserts and abstracts “universalism” and a form of activism, which corresponds with key principles of neoliberal capitalism. Anderson Benedict Appadurai Arjun Colonialism...

... WWII into a genetic and species outcast in the 1960s made this figure of popular culture available for a variety of cosmopolitan visions of queer, feminist, and minority belonging across the latter half of the 20th century. This creative innovation placed value on the superhero’s literal and figurative...

...This introductory chapter expounds on the concept of “emergent literature” and how it promotes a cosmopolitan outlook. The conception of the “emergent” here is founded on Raymond Williams's analysis of the dynamics of modern culture. “Literature” is likewise defined as an institution of culture...

... and signifies ambivalent constructions of black cosmopolitanism found in the Colored American Magazine (CAM). Drawing on Hopkins' correspondence about her published works in the magazine that she adapted for her portrayal of Reuel, it contends that that Hopkins' story about...

... cosmopolitanism within the context of politics. These fragments highlight different, non-commensurate religious entanglements. Dewey John Post secular the Social science Mahmood Saba Secularism Spirituality Cambridge MA spirituality in Enlightenment the Individualism Religious experience Secularization...

...Writing in the Luso-Brazilian context, Silviano Santiago again calls for a cosmopolitanism from below. In Portugal, he writes, elite cosmopolitanism is bound up with the legacy of empire and empire-returned captains of commerce; it tends to be found in private school and luxury hotels. For the poor...

...Homi Bhabha provides snapshots of what he calls spectral sovereignty, vernacular cosmopolitanism, and cosmopolitan memory. The nation-state persists in spectral or compromised form, Bhabha argues, long after it has been declared dead. It remains an object of desire for those who don’t have it, like...

... Englishness Identification of children by multiracial Muslims East Asian White multiracial people South Asian White multiracial people Racism Black White multiracial people Regions in Britain Cosmopolitanism Physical appearance Ethnic options Ethnic and racial authenticity Generational locus...

... technologies), provide conditions for a cosmopolitan gay male subject. The introduction traces the foundations of gay modernity to gay cosmopolitanism, including the queer, proletarian cosmopolitanism of sailors, soldiers, and cowboys, interrogating how these three figures were deployed to sustain and expand...

... to appreciate his difference. Hence, the chapter challenges a metanarrative for modern gay identity largely founded on migration to metropolitan locales and on gay cosmopolitanism. In contrast to most readings, the chapter uses both Annie Proulx’s story and Lee’s adaptation to critique gay assimilationism...

...A Taste for Brown Bodies asks what difference race makes in the emergence of gay modernity. The book examines how the romanticization of the “brown body” continues to shape modern gay sensibilities, tracing that brown body to the nostalgic imagination of gay cosmopolitanism. In so...

... their geoblocked condition by presenting themselves as services offering global, omnipresent, and customizable listening experiences. Chapter 4 argues that streaming music platforms’ promises of easily accessible music, mobility, and cosmopolitan interconnection in part mask their inconsistent global availability...

... forms of cosmopolitanism marked by an appreciation of diversity, empathy with people from across borders and cultures, and shared global cultural citizenship. For researchers and educators, region-free media can foster such attitudes in spaces of media education and literacy. Caramanica Jon end...