Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Once Were Internationalists? Postcolonialism, Disenchanted Solidarity and the Right to Belong in a World of Globalized Modernity....Pages 19-35
The Postcolonial Condition: A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present....Pages 36-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the International Postcolonial World....Pages 57-71
The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V. S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai....Pages 72-86
The ‘Shattered Racialised Person’ and (Post)multiculturalism in Australia....Pages 87-101
Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan English Writers....Pages 102-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Post-Agreement Belfast: Labour, Work and the New Subalterns in Daragh Carville’s Play This Other City ....Pages 119-133
Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The ‘Work’ of the Dalitbahujans....Pages 134-149
Driving Pinky Madam (and Murdering Mr Ashok): Social Justice and Domestic Service in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger ....Pages 150-164
Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn....Pages 165-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies Offer Human Rights a Revised Agenda....Pages 183-198
Human Rights, Security and Global Political Hinduism....Pages 199-213
Reading the Riots: Precarity, Racial Injustice and Rights in the Novels of Alex Wheatle....Pages 214-228
Discoursing on Slums: Representing the Cosmopolitan Subaltern....Pages 229-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-253