Perera No Country

Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-52544-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

No Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of of working-class fiction by considering a range of international and non-canonical texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perera, Sonali

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Leseproben

Read an excerpt from the introduction, "World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization?":

Über Autor(innen)

Sonali Perera is an associate professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, working-class literature, feminist theory, and globalization studies.