No Country : : Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization / / Sonali Perera.

Can there be a novel of the international working class despite the conditions and constraints of economic globalization? What does it mean to invoke working-class writing as an ethical intervention in an age of comparative advantage and outsourcing? No Country argues for a rethinking of the genre o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization?
  • 1. Colonialism, race, and class. Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern
  • 2. PostcolonIal Sri Lanka and "Black struggles For socialism". Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan's . When Memory Dies
  • 3. Gender, genre, and globalization
  • 4. Socialized labor and the critique of identity politics. Bessie Head's A Question of Power
  • Epilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social imagination
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index