Reworking Postcolonialism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Pavan Kumar Malreddy

      Pages 1-15

3. Globalization, Modernities and Other Histories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Once Were Internationalists? Postcolonialism, Disenchanted Solidarity and the Right to Belong in a World of Globalized Modernity

      • Frank Schulze-Engler

      Pages 19-35

   3. The Postcolonial Condition: A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present

      • Sandro Mezzadra, Federico Rahola

      Pages 36-54

4. Global Displacements: Exile, Movement and Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the International Postcolonial World

      • Melissa Kennedy

      Pages 57-71

   3. The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V. S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai

      • Malachi McIntosh

      Pages 72-86

   4. The ‘Shattered Racialised Person’ and (Post)multiculturalism in Australia

      • Lyn Dickens

      Pages 87-101

   5. Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan English Writers

      • Enrique Galván-Álvarez

      Pages 102-116

5. Globalization, Labour and Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Post-Agreement Belfast: Labour, Work and the New Subalterns in Daragh Carville’s Play This Other City

      • Birte Heidemann

      Pages 119-133

   3. Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The ‘Work’ of the Dalitbahujans

      • Pavan Kumar Malreddy

      Pages 134-149

   4. Driving Pinky Madam (and Murdering Mr Ashok): Social Justice and Domestic Service in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

      • Alex Tickell

      Pages 150-164

   5. Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

      • Maria-Belén Ordóñez

      Pages 165-179

6. Globalization, Rights and Citizenship

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies Offer Human Rights a Revised Agenda

      • Diana Brydon

      Pages 183-198

   3. Human Rights, Security and Global Political Hinduism

      • Arun Chaudhuri

      Pages 199-213

   4. Reading the Riots: Precarity, Racial Injustice and Rights in the Novels of Alex Wheatle

      • Ole Birk Laursen

      Pages 214-228

   5. Discoursing on Slums: Representing the Cosmopolitan Subaltern

      • Janet Wilson

      Pages 229-243

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.

• Postcolonialism
• globalization
• labour
• rights
• migration
• neoliberalism
• settler colonial studies
• indigenous studies
• subjectivity
• difference
• colonial studies
• colonialism
• fiction
• Nation
• novel
• poverty
• service
• settler
• social justice
• time

• Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

  Pavan Kumar Malreddy

• University of Potsdam, Germany

  Birte Heidemann

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Ole Birk Laursen

• University of Northampton, UK

  Janet Wilson

Diana Brydon, University of Manitoba, Canada. Arun Chaudhuri, York University, Canada. Lyn Dickens, University of Sydney, Australia. Enrique Galván-Álvarez, International University of La Rioja, Spain. Birte Heidemann, University of Potsdam, Germany. Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna, Austria. Ole Birk Laursen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Malachi McIntosh, University of Cambridge, UK. Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, Italy. Maria Belén Ordóñez, OCAD University, Canada. Federico Rahola teaches Sociology of Culture at the University of Genova, Italy. Frank Schulze-Engler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Alex Tickell, The Open University, UK. Janet Wilson, University of Northampton, UK.

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