Cargando…

Uncommon wealths in postcolonial fiction /

Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction engages urgently with wealth, testing current assumptions of inequality in order to push beyond reductive contemporary readings of the gaping abyss between rich and poor. Shifting away from longstanding debates in postcolonial criticism focused on poverty and...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference
Otros Autores: Ramsey-Kurz, Helga (Editor ), Kennedy, Melissa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 201.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Mi 4500
001 EBSCO_on1033686585
003 OCoLC
005 20231017213018.0
006 m o d
007 cr |n|||||||||
008 180430t20182018ne a ob 101 0 eng d
040 |a YDX  |b eng  |e rda  |e pn  |c YDX  |d OCLCO  |d IDEBK  |d N$T  |d YDX  |d OCLCQ  |d UKAHL  |d OCLCQ  |d QGK  |d K6U  |d OCLCO  |d LUU  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO 
019 |a 1017904140  |a 1021408073  |a 1036654991 
020 |a 9789004359581  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 9004359583  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9789004352605 
020 |z 9004352600 
035 |a (OCoLC)1033686585  |z (OCoLC)1017904140  |z (OCoLC)1021408073  |z (OCoLC)1036654991 
037 |a 1047271  |b MIL 
050 4 |a PN56.W4  |b E97 2014 
072 7 |a PR  |2 lcco 
072 7 |a BIO  |x 007000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 809.3/93553  |2 23 
049 |a UAMI 
110 2 |a European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.  |b Conference  |d (2014 :  |c Universität Innsbruck) 
245 1 0 |a Uncommon wealths in postcolonial fiction /  |c edited by Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Melissa Kennedy. 
264 1 |a Leiden :  |b Brill Rodopi,  |c [2018] 
264 4 |c ©2018 
300 |a 1 online resource (323 pages) :  |b color illustrations 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 1 |a Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English,  |x 0924-1426 ;  |v volume 201 
500 |a "Most of the essays in this collection started as papers presented at the 2014 Triennial Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) at the University of Innsbruck, 14-18 April, 2014"--Acknowledgements 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
520 |a Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction engages urgently with wealth, testing current assumptions of inequality in order to push beyond reductive contemporary readings of the gaping abyss between rich and poor. Shifting away from longstanding debates in postcolonial criticism focused on poverty and abjection, the book marshals fresh perspectives on material, spiritual, and cultural prosperity as found in the literatures of formerly colonized spaces. The chapters 'follow the money' to illuminate postcolonial fiction's awareness of the ambiguities of 'wealth', acquired under colonial capitalism and transmuted in contemporary neoliberalism. They weigh idealistic projections of individual and collective wellbeing against the stark realities of capital accumulation and excessive consumption. They remain alert to the polysemy suggested by "Uncommon Wealths," both registering the imperial economic urge to ensure common wealth and referencing the unconventional or non-Western, the unusual, even fictitious and contrasting privately coveted and exclusively owned wealth with visions of a shared good. Arranged into four sections centred on aesthetics, injustice, indigeneity, and cultural location, the individual chapters show how writers of postcolonial fiction, including Aravind Adiga, Amit Chau-dhuri, Anita Desai, Patricia Grace, Mohsin Hamid, Stanley Gazemba, Tomson Highway, Lebogang Matseke, Zakes Mda, Michael Ondaatje, Kim Scott, and Alexis Wright, employ prosperity and affluence as a lens through which to re-examine issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and family, the cultural value of heritage, land, and social cohesion, and such conflicting imperatives as economic growth, individual fulfilment, social and environmental responsibility, and just distribution. CONTRIBUTORS Francesco Cattani, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick, Paola Della Valle, Sneja Gunew, Melissa Kennedy, Neil Lazarus, John McLeod, Eva-Maria Müller, Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Geoff Rodoreda, Sandhya Shetty, Cheryl Stobie, Helen Tiffin, Alex Nelungo Wanjala, David Waterman. 
505 2 |a Pt. I Aesthetics of wealth -- Pt. II Historical wealth and material injustice -- Pt. III Indigenous common wealths -- Pt. IV The location of wealth in culture. 
590 |a eBooks on EBSCOhost  |b EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide 
650 0 |a Wealth in literature  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Postcolonialism in literature  |v Congresses. 
650 6 |a Richesse dans la littérature  |v Congrès. 
650 6 |a Postcolonialisme dans la littérature  |v Congrès. 
650 7 |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY  |x Literary.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Postcolonialism in literature  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Wealth in literature  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Conference papers and proceedings  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Ramsey-Kurz, Helga,  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Kennedy, Melissa,  |e editor. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 9789004359581  |w (GyWOH)har175023860 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 9789004352605  |z 9004352600  |w (OCoLC)1017082948 
830 0 |a Cross/cultures ;  |v 201. 
856 4 0 |u https://ebsco.uam.elogim.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1939783  |z Texto completo 
938 |a Askews and Holts Library Services  |b ASKH  |n AH37543406 
938 |a EBSCOhost  |b EBSC  |n 1939783 
938 |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection  |b IDEB  |n cis39220581 
938 |a YBP Library Services  |b YANK  |n 15074906 
994 |a 92  |b IZTAP