No Country - Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization

Zusatztext Through her analysis . . . Perera explores how to rethink working class literature! and No Country reevaluates the complex period genre category of working class writing. Informationen zum Autor Sonali Perera is associate professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, working-class literature, feminist theory, and globalization studies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Sonali Perera, Sonali (Hunter College) Perera
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780231151955
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15195-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Social classes, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature