This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanisms transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of thecosmoflâneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan characters urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwansSaturday (2005), Zadie SmithsNW (2012), Salman RushdiesThe Golden House (2017), and Kazuo IshigurosKlara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central.

Elif Toprak Sakz holds a PhD in English Literature from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. Her areas of interest include cultural studies, twenty-first-century fiction, narrative theory and posthumanism. She is a lecturer of Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at Dokuz Eylul University, where she has been teaching since 2010. She has published several articles in the fields of contemporary fiction, postcolonialism, gender studies and comparative literature.

 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanisms New Orientations.- 2. New Intersections in Fiction: Cosmopolitanism, Culture and Economics.- 3. Narrative Glocality and TheCosmoflâneur in Ian McEwansSaturday.-4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan Culture and Economics in Zadie SmithsNW.-5. Cosmopolitan Identity and Narration in Salman RushdiesThe Golden House: The Move Towards Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.-6. Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Post-Covid-19 Sensitivities In Kazuo IshigurosKlara And The Sun.-7. Conclusion: The Genre of The Contemporary.- References.-Index.