Reworking Postcolonialism [electronic resource] : Globalization, Labour and Rights /
Malreddy, P.editor.
Heidemann, B.editor.
Laursen, O.editor.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It brings together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Globalization, Modernities and Other Histories; 1 Once Were Internationalists? Postcolonialism, Disenchanted Solidarity and the Right to Belong in a World of Globalized Modernity; 2 The Postcolonial Condition: A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present; Part II: Global Displacements: Exile, Movement and Migration; 3 Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the International Postcolonial World; 4 The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V. S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai
5 The 'Shattered Racialised Person' and (Post)multiculturalism in Australia6 Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan English Writers; Part III: Globalization, Labour and Work; 7 Post-Agreement Belfast: Labour, Work and the New Subalterns in Daragh Carville's Play This Other City; 8 Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The 'Work' of the Dalitbahujans; 9 Driving Pinky Madam (and Murdering Mr Ashok): Social Justice and Domestic Service in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger; 10 Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Part IV: Globalization, Rights and Citizenship11 Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies Offer Human Rights a Revised Agenda; 12 Human Rights, Security and Global Political Hinduism; 13 Reading the Riots: Precarity, Racial Injustice and Rights in the Novels of Alex Wheatle; 14 Discoursing on Slums: Representing the Cosmopolitan Subaltern; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It brings together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world.
World politics.
Literature   .
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Emigration and immigration.
Sociology.
Political History.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Migration.
Sociology, general.