INDEX

aberrant grammar: Ishiguro and; Rushdie and

Achebe, Chinua

adda

Adorno, Theodor W.: Aesthetic Theory; on barbarism; “Commitment”; on committed literature; comparison to Woolf; “Critique”; critique of critique; “The Essay as Form”; on foreignness in language; “Is Art Lighthearted?”; Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life; “Morality and Style”; Negative Dialectics; “Parataxis: On Hölderlin’s Late Poetry”; on the politics of literary style; “The Position of the Narrator”; “Resignation”

Ahmad, Aijaz

air war: Huyssen on Sebald and; Sebald on; Woolf on

Althusser, Louis

Anderson, Amanda: on cosmopolitanism; on epigrams; on ethos; on Wilde

Anglo-Irish revivalism

Annan, Gabriele

antifascism

anti-Semitism; British; German; Irish

Appadurai, Arjun

Aristotle

Arnold, Matthew

Art Journal, The

assimilation: Conrad and; in “The Courter” (Rushdie); in A Pale View of Hills (Ishiguro); Rushdie and; in The Satanic Verses (Rushdie); Sebald and; tactic of; in “Three Jews” (L. Woolf)

Attridge, Derek, and portmanteau words

Auerbach, Erich

Austen, Jane

 

Bakhtin, Mikhail M.; and epic

Balibar, Etienne; on citizenship

Barker, Pat

Barrett, Michèle; on Woolf;

Barthes, Roland; and aberrant grammar; Empire of Signs; and myths; and the reality effect; S/Z

Bate, Jonathan, defense of English literary history

Baucom, Ian: on place in twentieth-century British fiction; on The Satanic Verses

Beckett, Samuel. See also stammering

Benjamin, Walter; image of the angel of history; Sebald’s debt to; and unassimilation

Berman, Jessica; on cosmopolitanism and community; on modernist literary styles and fascist politics; on Three Guineas (Woolf); on Woolf and politics

Bhabha, Homi K.; on cultural choice; on cultural hybridity; discussion of difference and identity; “DissemiNation”; on Rushdie; on the self-critical joke; on vernacular cosmopolitanism

Bloomsbury Group

Boas, Franz

book prizes. See also Granta, Best of Young British Novelist awards; Koret prize for Jewish Literature; London Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; Man-Booker Prize; National Book Critics Circle Award; Whitbread Award

Booker Prize. See Man-Booker Prize

Bowlby, Rachel

Boyd, Ernest

Bradbrook, M. C.

Brantlinger, Patrick

Breckenridge, Carol

Brennan, Timothy; on “convenient cosmpolitanism”

bricolage; Rushdie’s use of

British novel; Conrad and; Ishiguro and; Rushdie and; Sebald and

British writers: classifications and; definitions of; and national culture

Burton, Antoinette

Butler, Judith;

 

canceled decorum. See decorum, canceled

Carroll, Lewis; and the “portmanteau”

Catholicism, evangelism and Joyce

Cavell, Edith

Chakrabarty, Dipesh; account of adda; and critical cosmopolitanism; on imperialism; on provincializing Europe; on Tagore; and tradition

Charques, R. D.

Cheng, Vincent

Chow, Rey

Chaudhuri, Amit

Chrisman, Laura, on modernist writing and colonialism

Claybaugh, Amanda

Clifford, James; on achieved fiction; and cultural inventiveness; and discrepant cosmopolitanism; on ethnographic self-fashioning

Cohen, Deborah; on cultural indeterminacy

Collini, Stefan

colonialism; and anticolonialism; British; Conrad and; Joyce and; and literature; Rushdie and; Sartre on; Sebald and; Woolf and. See also imperialism

Commonwealth literature, Rushdie’s objection to the category of

community; Butler on; and committed writing; and cosmopolitanism; Ishiguro and; Joyce and; Nussbaum on; Rushdie and; Sebald and; Woolf and

comparison; and camouflage; and critical cosmopolitanism; insubordinate; Ishiguro and; Joyce and; and narrative practice; Rushdie and; Sebald and; Woolf and

Conrad, Joseph; “Author’s Note” to The Secret Agent; choice of English; cosmopolitan reputation; and critical dandyism; critique of progress; and curiosity; and Englishness; foreignness in The Secret Agent; Heart of Darkness; Heart of Darkness in The Rings of Saturn (Sebald); Lord Jim; The Nigger of the “Narcissus,”; Nostromo; A Personal Record; and propaganda; and racism; The Secret Agent; tactic of naturalness; and tactics;; and Wilde

Coppa, Francesca

cosmopolitan style; and commitment; literary strategies; and modernism; and tactics. See also posture; style

cosmopolitanism; and aesthetic decadence; and anticolonialism; critiques of; and ethics; of exploitative fusion; and imperialism; meanings of; and modernism; and national culture; as perverse; and politics; and sophistication; of tactical syncretism; traditions of thought; Victorian images of

cosmopolitics: Ghosh and; Robbins and

Craven, Peter, on Sebald

critical cosmopolitanism; definitions of; and double consciousness; and Gilroy’s planetary humanism; and modernism; tactics of

critique: critique of; Enlightenment ideas of; Kant and

Cuddy-Keane, Melba

Culler, Jonathan

 

Dames, Nicholas

Damrosch, David: defense of a history of British literature; on world literature

dandyism; critical; definitions of

Davray, Hugh-Durand

de Certeau, Michel; on the immigrant-tactician; The Practice of Everyday Life

decorum; canceled; definition of; Joyce and

delayed decoding, Conrad and

Deleuze, Gilles; on stammering

Derrida, Jacques

Dever, Carolyn

Dharwadker, Vinay

différance

Dodgson, Charles. See Carroll, Lewis

Donald, James

double consciousness, and critical cosmopolitanism

Du Bois, W. E. B.:

Duffy, Enda

 

Eagleton, Terry

Edelman, Lee

Eliot, George

Eliot, T. S.; The Waste Land

Ellmann, Maud

Enlightenment: and the courtly tradition; Kant and; ideas of critique; and the philosophical tradition of cosmopolitanism

Enloe, Cynthia

entanglement: Adorno and; and critical cosmopolitanism; definitions of; Ishiguro and; and modernism; and the nation; in The Satanic Verses (Rushdie); Sebald and; and unassimilation; Woolf and

epigrams

Eshel, Amir, on Sebald

Esty, Jed

ethics: and cosmopolitanism; and modernism; and style; and vertigo

euphemism: politics of; Woolf and

evasion: and the definition of culture; obliquity as; as political affect; response to the politics of euphemism; tactic of. See also Woolf, Virginia

everyday life: Adorno on; de Certeau on; Joyce and; politics of the focus on; Rushdie and; Woolf and

 

Fanon, Frantz

fascism; and modernist literary styles; Woolf and; Ishiguro and

Faulkner, William

Feldman, Jessica R.

Felski, Rita, on the gender of modernity

feminism

First World War;;; Woolf and; Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf) and; Roger Casement’s execution during

flânerie

Forster, E. M.

Foucault, Michel; account of the dandy; and the critique of description

Freud, Sigmund

Friedman, Susan Stanford

Froula, Christine

Fussell, Paul; on camouflage

 

Gallop, Jane

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar

Garnett, Constance

Garnett, Edward

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

gender: and conditions of patriotism; of modernity; Woolf and

George, Rosemary Marangoly

Ghosh, Amitav

Gibson, Andrew

Gikandi, Simon

Gilroy, Paul: on cosmopolitan tradition; on planetary humanism

Ginsberg, Elaine K.

Glasgow News

globalization: cosmopolitanism and; impact on local experience; and literary classifications; and modernism; Rushdie and; Sebald and

Gómez, Ramón

Gorris, Marleen, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway compared to novel

Granta, Best of Young British Novelist awards

 

Haggard, Rider

Hall, Stuart; on the new ethnicities

Hanson, Ellis

Harlem Renaissance

Harpham, Geoffrey Galt

Hejinian, Lyn, on Adorno and barbarism

heroism: Conrad and; and conventions of writing; and cosmopolitanism; Ishiguro and; Joyce and; and modernism; and politics; and rhetoric; Woolf and

Hoffman, Eva, use of the panoramic view

Hogarth Press

Holocaust, the: and contextual differences; historicization of; Hoffmann and; Sebald and; Sontag on Sebald’s writings of

homosexuality; Roger Casement and; Woolf and

Hone, Joseph M.

Horace

Horkheimer, Max; and traditional cosmopolitanism; and unassimilation

Huyssen, Andreas; on Sebald’s debt to Benjamin

Hynes, Samuel

hypotaxis

 

Ibsen, Henrik

Image, Selwyn

immigration: Conrad and; and de Certeau; Ishiguro and; Kumar on; and modernism; and portmanteaux; Rushdie and; Sebald and; Woolf and; writing and tactics

imperialism: British; Conrad and; and cosmopolitanism; and Heart of Darkness (Conrad); Ishiguro and;; Joyce and; and modernism; relationship to capitalism; and The Satanic Verses (Rushdie); Woolf and. See also colonialism

individualism: and Bloomsbury; and cosmopolitanism; critiques of; democratic; Ishiguro and; Joyce and; and modernism; Tagore and; Woolf and

internationalism: and cosmopolitanism; and modernism; and nativism, and new ethnicities; Rushdie and; after the Second World War

Irish National Theater

Irish Revival

Ishiguro, Kazuo; abberant grammar; An Artist of the Floating World; authenticity and exoticism in Artist; the Booker Prize and Remains; and double consciousness; Englishness in Remains; Esquire publication of “A Family Supper”; Etsuko as unreliable narrator in Pale View; failed consolation in Pale View; and foreignness; Godzilla in Artist; and imperialism; imperialism in Artist; imperialism in Pale View; Japanese identity and seppuku in “A Family Supper”; and Japaneseness; and loyalty; and national identity; national identity in Pale View; oaths of loyalty in Artist; Ono as unreliable narrator in Artist; A Pale View of Hills; patriotism in Artist; The Remains of the Day; compared to Rushdie; compared to Sebald; suicide in Artist; Stevens as unreliable narrator in Remains; suicide in Pale View; tactic of treason; The Unconsoled; use of unreliable narrators; When We Were Orphans

Israel, Nico

Iyer, Pico, on Ishiguro

 

James, Henry; The Golden Bowl; and vulgar truth

Jameson, Fredric; and national allegory

Jardine, Lisa, on the Man-Booker Prize

Johnson, Bruce

Joyce, James; anticolonialism in Portrait; aphoristic decorum in “Wandering Rocks”; and British imperialism; and canceled decorum; canceled decorum in “Two Gallants”;; and Catholic evangelism; commitment to subjective impressions; “Cyclops”; “The Dead”; Dubliners; and insubordinate attention; insubordinate attention in Portrait; and Irish anti-Semitism; and Irishness; and modernism; and the nation; and nicknaming; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; rejection of tradition; compared to Rushdie; and subtracted consensus; tactic of triviality; “Two Gallants”; Ulysses; vernacular cosmopolitanism in “Cyclops”; “Wandering Rocks”

 

Kafka, Franz. See also stammering

Kant, Immanuel, and cosmopolitanism

Kaplan, Caren

Kawabata, Yasunari

Kerkering, John

King, Bruce

Kipling, Rudyard

Koret prize for Jewish Literature

Korzeniowski, Konrad. See Conrad, Joseph

Kumar, Amitava; on mixing journalism and literature

 

Lamming, George

Larbaud, Valéry

Leavis, F. R.

Leavis, Q. D.

Lessing, Doris

Levi, Neil

Levine, Caroline

Lewis, Pericles; on Conrad’s critique of liberal nationalism

Lewis, Wyndham

Lezra, Jacques

Litvak, Joseph

Lloyd, David

Loh, Lucienne

Lombroso, Cesare

London Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Love, Heather

Lukács, Georg; critique of description; “Narrate or Describe?”

Lynd, Robert

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

 

Malinowski, Bronislaw

Man-Booker Prize

Mansfield, Katherine

Martin, Joseph

Marzorati, Gerald

Matz, Jesse

Mignolo, Walter

Milchmann, Alan

Miller, D. A., on Sontag’s politics of metaphor

Miller, Monica L.

Miller, Nancy K.

Miró, Gabriel

Mishima, Yukio

Mishkin, Tracy

mistake: Ishiguro and; and misunderstanding; rhetoric of the immigrant’s; Rushdie’s use of mix-up and

misunderstanding: de Certeau and; Ishiguro and; and mistake; Rushdie and

mix-up: and the definition of culture; tactic of. See also Rushdie, Salman

Mo, Timothy

modernism: and aesthetic decadence; anthropological and vernacular traditions of cosmopolitanism and; and Bloomsbury artists; British literary; Conrad and; and cosmopolitanism; definitions of; and the First World War; Gorris and; and Hogarth Press; and imperialism; and internationalism; Joyce and; literary strategies and tactics of; and politics; Sebald and; Woolf and

modernist cosmopolitanism; and adda; and international thinking

modernist narrative: and cosmopolitan interventions; features of; fiction and cosmopolitanism; formal experimentation

Moten, Fred

Mouffe, Chantal

Murry, John Middleton

 

nation; and cosmopolitanism; as disciplinary paradigm; and practices of writing; thinking beyond the

Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire and the unreliable narrator

Nation

Nation and Anthanæum

National Book Critics Circle Award

national culture; and cosmopolitanism; and Englishness; Ishiguro and; Joyce and; and modernism; Rushdie and; Sebald and; Woolf and

nationalism; British; and cosmopolitanism; Joyce and; and modernism

nativism: and cosmopolitanism; Ishiguro and; Joyce and; Murray and; Rushdie and

naturalness: Conrad and; tactic of; meaning of

Nava, Mica

négritude poetry

New Statesmen, The

New York Review of Books

New York Times Magazine

Ngai, Sianne

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

nicknames; Joyce’s use of; Rushdie’s use of

Nietzsche, Friedrich

1917 Club

Novick, Peter

Nussbaum, Martha; and cosmopolitan universalism

 

Orwell, George

Owen, Wilfrid

 

Pater, Walter

parataxis

Parker, David

Passerini, Luisa

patriotism; Butler on; and gender; Leavis on; modernism and; Woolf and

PEN

Phillips, Adam

Phillips, Caryl

planetary humanism; Gilroy onn

Pollock, Sheldon

portmanteau. See Attridge, Derek; Carroll, Lewis; Rushdie, Salman

Posnock, Ross

postcolonialism; flânerie; and Joyce; Rushdie and; Sebald and

postmodernism: and cosmopolitanism; and modernism; and Sebald

posture: cultural strategies of; Scheffler on; style as. See also cosmopolitan style; style

Proust, Marcel: commitment to subjective impressionism; comparison to Ishiguro

puns: Joyce and; Rushdie and

 

racism; and antiracist forms; Conrad and; Ishiguro and; Joyce and; Rushdie and. See also Conrad, Joseph; Joyce, James; Rushdie, Salman

Radhakrishnan, R.

Ray, Satyajit

Reed, Christopher

Reed, John R.

Richards, Grant

Richardson, Brian, on modernist writing

Robbins, Bruce

Rosenberg, Alan

Rosenberg, Jordana

Rostan, Kim

Rothberg, Michael; on vertigo as an ethical paradigm

Rushdie, Salman; and British colonialism; and the British novel; colonialism in The Satanic Verses; “‘Commonwealth Literature’ Does Not Exist”; and convenient cosmopolitanism; “The Courter”; courtship in “The Courter”; critique of authenticity; critique of cultural axioms in “Good Advice”; critique of fundamentalism; critique of national identity; East, West; Fury; “Good Advice Is Better Than Rubies”; humor; and immigration; immigration in “The Courter”; immigration in Fury; immigration in “Good Advice”; immigration in The Satanic Verses; imperialism and capitalism in Fury; compared to Ishiguro; compared to Joyce; Midnight’s Children; mix-up in The Satanic Verses; naming and nicknaming in “The Courter”; nicknaming in The Satanic Verses; portmanteau and “The Courter”; proverbs in “Good Advice”; and racism; racism in The Satanic Verses; compared to Sebald; stuttering in The Satanic Verses; tactic of mix-up; and triviality; compared to Woolf

 

Said, Edward

Sartre, Jean-Paul; “Black Orpheus”; “What is Literature?”

Scheffler, Samuel

Scott, Joan W.

Scrutiny

Sebald, W. G.; “Air War and Literature”; Austerlitz; debt to Benjamin; and British literary history; Conrad in Rings; The Emigrants; and Englishness in Rings; use of epigraphs in Rings; and German literature; German vs. American reputation of; Heart of Darkness (Conrad) in Rings; and the Holocaust; Huyssen on; and imperialism; imperialism in Rings; and literary prizes; and models of cosmopolitanism; use of modernist strategies; national identity in Rings; and national literature;; The Rings of Saturn; Roger Casement in Rings; compared to Rushdie; tactic of vertigo; and transnationalism; and unassimilation; unassimiliation in Rings; Vertigo; vertigo in Austerlitz; vertigo in The Emigrants, vertigo in Rings

Second World War; An Artist of the Floating World (Ishiguro) and; Auerbach and; Ishiguro and; A Pale View of Hills (Ishiguro) and; The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro) and; Sebald and; in The Rings of Saturn (Sebald); “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid” (Woolf) and

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Shaw, George Bernard

Shklovsky, Victor; compared to Woolf

Sinfield, Alan

Sontag, Susan; on Sebald

stammering: compared to Ishiguro’s aberrant grammar; in Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)

Stravinsky, Igor

stuttering, in The Satanic Verses (Rushdie)

style: and commitment; concept of; and ethics; expressive literature; and politics; and strategies of affiliation. See also cosmopolitan style; posture

Swales, Martin, on Sebald’s debt to Benjamin

Symons, Arthur

 

tactics: of critical cosmopolitanism; de Certeau and; definition of; and writers. See also evasion; mix-up; naturalness; treason; triviality; vertigo

Tagore, Rabindranath; Chakrabarty on; The Home and the World

Tindall, Gillian

traditional cosmopolitanism

translation; Conrad and; Ishiguro and; Sebald and

transnationalism; and cosmopolitanism; Joyce and; and modernism; and narrative patterns; Rushdie and; Sebald and; and style; Woolf and

treason: definition of; tactic of. See also Ishiguro, Kazuo

triviality: Conrad and; and international politics; Sebald and; tactic of. See also Joyce, James

Turner, W. J.

 

unassimiliation; Sebald and

uncritical reading

universal cosmopolitanism

unreliable narrator. See also Ishiguro, Kazuo

 

Valente, Joseph

vernacular cosmopolitanism

vertigo: Leone on; as ethical paradigm; tactic of. See also Sebald, W. G.

Viswanathan, Gauri

 

Waldron, Jeremy

Walkowitz, Judith R.

Walkowitz, Rebecca L.

Wall, Kathleen

Walpole, Hugh

Ward, Simon

Warner, Michael

Watt, Ian

Whitbread Award

W. H. Smith literary prize

Wicke, Jennifer

Wilde, Oscar; and Conrad; epigrams; and individualism; and naturalness; Salomé

Williams, Arthur

Williams, Raymond

Wolfe, Alan

Wolff, Janet, on the gender of modernity

Woolf, Leonard; and “Three Jews”; Two Stories

Woolf, Virginia; “The Artist and Politics”; and camouflage as metaphor; commitment to subjective impressions; critique of euphemism in “Mark on the Wall”; critique of patriotism; critique of patriotism in Mrs. Dalloway; critiques of; and Edith Cavell; and Englishness; Englishness in Mrs. Dalloway;; and euphemism; euphemism in Mrs. Dalloway; and fascism; and gender;; gender in Mrs. Dalloway; and imperialism; imperialism in Mrs. Dalloway; compared to Ishiguro; Jacob’s Room; “The Mark on the Wall”; “Modern Fiction”; and modernist narrative;; Monday or Tuesday; Mrs. Dalloway; Mrs. Dalloway compared to film version; Orlando; use of parataxis; use of parataxis in Mrs. Dalloway; politics of gender and fascism in Three Guineas;; A Room of One’s Own; compared to Rushdie; and Society of Outsiders; and stammering; tactic of evasion; techniques of evasion in Mrs. Dalloway; “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid”; Three Guineas; To the Lighthouse; Two Stories; The Voyage Out; The Waves; The Years

World Trade Center attacks

 

Yeats, W. B.

Young, Robert J. C.

 

Zabus, Chantal

Žižek, Slavoj

Zwerdling, Alex