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Reworking Postcolonialism : Globalization, Labour and Rights.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137435934
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reworking PostcolonialismDDC classification:
  • 809.933581
LOC classification:
  • D31-34
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Australia -- 6 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 Citizenship -- 11 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.
Summary: 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.
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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 Australia -- 6 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 Citizenship -- 11 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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