Reworking Postcolonialism

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