Graduate Student, English, Drama and Film
Thesis Title: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Aesthetics and Belonging in the Contemporary British Novel
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Dr John Brannigan
Dr Sharae Deckard |
About
I am in the first year of my PhD titled "Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Aesthetics and Belonging in the Contemporary British Novel."
This research argues for a theory of 'cosmopolitan' British literature which interacts with the realities of a postnational, devolved and multicultural nation. The project will chart a chronological and political progression from Thatcher to New Labour, examining writers such as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, David Mitchell & Rana Dasgupta. The thesis will ultimately explore a transition in the past two decades in cosmopolitan fiction, corresponding with the rise and fall of New Labour and narratives of celebratory multiculturalism, to an anxious 'post-British', transnational literary consciousness. Ultimately this gestures towards a comparative, world literature approach.
This project is funded by the IRCHSS and supported by the Humanities Institute of Ireland.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.ucd.ie/hii/people/graduateresearchers/t |
| Address: | H005, Humanities Institute of Ireland, |
| Telephone: |
+3537164682 |
