Reworking Postcolonialism

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.

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.

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; 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 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 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-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 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 Index