Abstract
In their article "Precarious Cosmopolitanism in O'Neill's Netherland and Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow" Pier Paolo Frassinelli and David Watson propose a comparative reading of two twenty-first century novels in light of recent debates on cosmopolitanism and precarity. They examine cosmopolitan articulations within a novel dealing with immigrant communities in post-9/11 New York and within a text narrating life in the metropolis of Johannesburg. Both Netherland and Welcome to Our Hillbrow are preoccupied with economic and political precarity in cosmopolitan cities and offer a rich inventory of forms of cosmopolitan desire rooted in modes of life. By aligning and moving between these texts and the transnational networks they represent, Frassinelli and Watson explore the ground for theorizing some of the political questions brought up by contemporary world literature.
Recommended Citation
Frassinelli, Pier Paolo;
and Watson, David.
"Precarious Cosmopolitanism in O'Neill's Netherland and Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
15.5
(2013):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2350>
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