Research Catalog

Title

Reworking postcolonialism : globalization, labour and rights / 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.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, 1977-
• Heidemann, Birte
• Laursen, Ole Birk
• Wilson, Janet, 1948-

Description

xii, 253 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Pavan Kumar Malreddy -- Part I. Globalization, Modernities andOother 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 and Federico Rahola -- Part II. Global DisplacementsL Exile, Movement and Migration: 3. Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the International Postcolonial World / Melissa Kennedy; 4. The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V.S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai / Malachi McIntosh; 5. The 'Shattered Racialised Person' and (Post)multiculturalism in Australia / Lyn Dickens; 6. Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan-English Writers / Enrique Galván-Álvarez -- 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;dg9. dtDriving 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-Belén Ordóñez -- 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 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 WilsonIndex.

Call Number

JFD 15-3655

ISBN

• 9781137435927 (hardback)
• 1137435925 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2015001759
• 40025045122

OCLC

893894298

Title

Reworking postcolonialism : globalization, labour and rights / 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

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, 1977- editor.

Heidemann, Birte, editor.

Laursen, Ole Birk, 1978- editor.

Wilson, Janet, 1948- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40025045122

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3655