Reworking postcolonialism
Subtitle: globalization, labour and rights
By: Edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Researcher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany ; Birte Heidemann, Researcher, University of Potsdam, Germany ; Ole Birk Laursen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781137435927
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; Human rights in literature; Globalization in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries; Postcolonialism
Description: "An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It focuses on the impact of the global market forces on the formation of new subject positions among urban dwellers, exiles, and other disenfranchised communities. Bringing together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world, the essays collected here investigate the transformative effects of the global dissemination of capital, goods and movements of people, and call for a revision of the existing discourses on rights, entitlements and citizenship"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsNotes on the contributorsIntroductionPART I: GLOBALIZATION, MODERNITIES AND OTHER HISTORIES1. Once Were Internationalists? Postcolonialism, Disenchanted Solidarity and the Right to Belong in a World of Globalized Modernity; Frank Schulze-Engler2. The Postcolonial Condition: A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present; Sandro Mezzadra & Federico RaholaPART II: GLOBAL DISPLACEMENTS: EXILE, MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION3. The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V.S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai; Malachi McIntosh4. Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the International Postcolonial World; Melissa Kennedy5. The 'Shattered Racialised Person' and (Post)multiculturalism in Australia; Lyn Dickens6. Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan-English Writers; Enrique Galván-ÁlvarezPART III: GLOBALIZATION, LABOUR AND WORK7. Post-Agreement Belfast: Labour, Work and the New Subalterns in Daragh Carville's Play This Other City; Birte Heidemann8. Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The 'Work' of the Dalitbahujans; Pavan Kumar Malreddy9. Driving Pinky Madam (and Murdering Mr Ashok): Social Justice and Domestic Service in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger; Alex Tickell10. Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-KahnMaria-Belén OrdóñezPART IV: GLOBALIZATION, RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP11. Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies Offer Human Rights a Revised Agenda; Diana Brydon12. Human Rights, Security, and Global Political Hinduism; Arun Kumar Chaudhuri13. Reading the Riots: Precarity, Racial Injustice and Rights in the Novels of Alex Wheatle; Ole Birk Laursen14. Discoursing on Slums: Representing the Cosmopolitan Subaltern; Janet WilsonIndex.