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- Title
Community Writing in The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts from the Perspective of Cosmopolitanism.
- Authors
Cheng Tongxin
- Abstract
African American author Colson Whitehead embraces cosmopolitanism in his multi-themed writing, calling on people to liberate themselves from the mindset of a particular nation or country and build a community society beyond narrow nationalism. His creative nonfiction The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts, which focuses on 13 New York City profiles, creates an urban community through the mobility of building, population and time, and build the community of shared future through the postmemory media of illustration and the stream of consciousness narration. Whitehead presents the human fear of disappearing in the "broken" urban landscape in the post-9/11 era and conveys his vision of deconstructing the West-centrism and constructing a community-like society of "one world, one family". Transcending its imagination, community becomes a self-evident truth in world literature debates in Whitehead's creative nonfiction.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); COSMOPOLITANISM; WHITEHEAD, Colson, 1969-; AFRICAN American authors; CREATIVE nonfiction; RESIDENTIAL mobility; LITERATURE
- Publication
Foreign Language & Literature Research, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 4, p31
- ISSN
1003-6822
- Publication type
Article