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" Reworking postcolonialism : "
edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen.
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729255
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edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen.
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Reworking postcolonialism : : globalization, labour and rights\ edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen.
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan
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266 pages : 1 illustration
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1137435933
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: 1349493317
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: 9781137435934
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: 9781349493319
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Electronic book text.;Epublication based on: 9781137435927.
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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 Galvan-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-Belen Ordonez 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
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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.
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Postcolonialism.
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PN56.P555E358 9999
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Birte Heidemann
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Ole Birk Laursen
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Pavan Kumar Malreddy
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