The postcolonial country in contemporary literature /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Foreign fields that will be forever England
- The politics of postimperial melancholia and rural heritage in the 1980s: W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn
- Rural routes of empire, colonial nostalgia and the thatcher years: V.S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival
- Contemporary Black Britain and the English countryside: David Dabydeen's Disappearance and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore
- Towards a provincial cosmopolitanism: Amitava Kumar's Bombay London New York
- A distinctly uncosmopolitan present: the postcolonial rural in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary maps
- Historicising neocolonial globalisation and political revolution: Jamaica Kincaid's A small place
- Epilogue: Local futures, global fissures.