Reworking postcolonialism : globalization, labour and rights

Reworking postcolonialism : globalization, labour and rights /

"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...

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Other Authors: Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, 1977- (Editor), Heidemann, Birte (Editor), Laursen, Ole Birk (Editor), Wilson, Janet, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Subjects:
Postcolonialism in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Postcolonialism > Social aspects.
Human rights in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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; Frank Schulze-Engler
  • 2. The Postcolonial Condition: A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present; Sandro Mezzadra & Federico Rahola
  • PART II: GLOBAL DISPLACEMENTS: EXILE, MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION
  • 3. The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V.S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai; Malachi McIntosh
  • 4. Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the International Postcolonial World; Melissa Kennedy
  • 5. The 'Shattered Racialised Person' and (Post)multiculturalism in Australia; Lyn Dickens
  • 6. Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan-English Writers; Enrique Galvn-Alvarez
  • PART III: GLOBALIZATION, LABOUR AND WORK
  • 7. Post-Agreement Belfast: Labour, Work and the New Subalterns in Daragh Carville's Play This Other City; Birte Heidemann
  • 8. Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The 'Work' of the Dalitbahujans; Pavan Kumar Malreddy
  • 9. Driving Pinky Madam (and Murdering Mr Ashok): Social Justice and Domestic Service in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger; Alex Tickell
  • 10. Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
  • Maria-Beľn Ordez
  • PART IV: GLOBALIZATION, RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP
  • 11. Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies Offer Human Rights a Revised Agenda; Diana Brydon
  • 12. Human Rights, Security, and Global Political Hinduism; Arun Kumar Chaudhuri
  • 13. Reading the Riots: Precarity, Racial Injustice and Rights in the Novels of Alex Wheatle; Ole Birk Laursen
  • 14. Discoursing on Slums: Representing the Cosmopolitan Subaltern; Janet Wilson.

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