Colonial Cosmopolitanism? Resistance, Aesthetics, and Modernism in Patrick Anderson's Prose.

A literary criticism of the book "Snake Wine" by Canadian travel writer and poet Patrick Anderson is presented. It examines the book's issues of colonial cosmopolitanism, colonial discourse, and utopian desire in literature. It outlines the book as a travel memoir and its unstable narration, cosmopolitan vision, self-refection, modernism writing, resistance and colonial attitudes is also examined.