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

Contents

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