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Microloans and Micronarratives: Sentiment for a Small World

Microloans and Micronarratives: Sentiment for a Small World This essay evaluates the contribution that sentimentality might make to cosmopolitan practices in contemporary life. In particular, it considers how the legacy of feminized sentimental fiction informs twenty-first-century rhetoric on the Internet. The essay examines how the person-to-person microlending Web site Kiva fosters attachments with distant others through the illusion of intimacy that reshapes the global into an emotionally manageable size. This sentimental promise of a small world is both what enables and what haunts a cosmopolitan sense of responsibility to others. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Culture Duke University Press

Microloans and Micronarratives: Sentiment for a Small World

Public Culture , Volume 21 (2) – Apr 1, 2009

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Duke University Press
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Duke University Press
ISSN
0899-2363
eISSN
1527-8018
DOI
10.1215/08992363-2008-029
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Abstract

This essay evaluates the contribution that sentimentality might make to cosmopolitan practices in contemporary life. In particular, it considers how the legacy of feminized sentimental fiction informs twenty-first-century rhetoric on the Internet. The essay examines how the person-to-person microlending Web site Kiva fosters attachments with distant others through the illusion of intimacy that reshapes the global into an emotionally manageable size. This sentimental promise of a small world is both what enables and what haunts a cosmopolitan sense of responsibility to others.

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Public CultureDuke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2009

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