Reworking postcolonialism : globalization, labour and rights /: globalization, labour and rights. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: 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.
• Editors: Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, 1977-; Heidemann, Birte; Laursen, Ole Birk; Wilson, Janet, 1948-
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.93358; General; Postcolonialism in literature; Globalization in literature; Postcolonialism -- Social aspects; Human rights in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries; Third World Development; Globalization; Emigration & Immigration; Literature & literary studies; Society & social sciences; Globalization; Literary studies: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137435941; 1137435941
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