Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction.

Intro -- Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I AESTHETICS OF WEALTH -- Into Our Labours: Work and Literary Form in World Literature -- Hidden in the Chaotic Tumble of Events: Toronto's Rich in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion -- Spartan Luxury: A Poetics of Finitude and Fullness in A Strange and Sublime Address -- II: HISTORICAL WEALTH AND MATERIAL INJUSTICE -- Writing Congo -- The Black Diamond and the Queen BEE: Representations of Wealth, Corruption, and Women's Sexuality in Two South African Novels -- The Truth on Common Poverty and Uncommon Wealth in Rural Kenya: Stanley Gazemba's The Stone Hills of Maragoli -- Neoliberalism, Water Scarcity, and Common Wealth: Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia -- III: INDIGENOUS COMMON WEALTHS -- Indigenous Cosmopolitanism -- Colonial Capitalism's 'Disvaluation' of Indigenous Australians' Uncommon Wealth: Scholarly Analyses and Literary Representations -- Weal/th in the Land: Re-Imagining Indigenous Land-Use in Australia -- Indigenous Degrowth and Global Capitalism: Exploring Notions of Development in New Zealand Literature -- IV THE LOCATION OF WEALTH IN CULTURE -- Wards and Rewards: Adoptability and Lost Children -- Exploring the European 'Common' Wealth: A Black British Literary and Artistic Tour -- Alpenreich | Alpine Riches: Writing Back Mountain Stories -- How to Be Rich, Popular, and Have It All: Conflicted Attitudes to Wealth and Poverty in Post-Crisis Fiction -- Notes on the Contributors and Editors -- Index.

The essays collected in Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction "follow the money" to illuminate literature's keen awareness of the multiple and often conflicting meanings of wealth and commons in formerly colonized spaces.

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