LEADER 05482nam 2200493 450 001 9910807293003321 005 20230814221315.0 010 $a90-04-35958-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004359581 035 $a(CKB)4100000000729641 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5124287 035 $a(OCoLC)1011126963 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004359581 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000729641 100 $a20180130h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aUncommon wealths in postcolonial fiction$b[e-book] /$fedited by Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Melissa Kennedy 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cBrill Rodopi,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aCross/Cultures,$x0924-1426 ;$vVolume 201 311 $a90-04-35260-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rHelga Ramsey-Kurz and Melissa Kennedy --$tIntroduction /$rHelga Ramsey-Kurz and Melissa Kennedy --$tInto Our Labours: Work and Literary Form in World Literature /$rNeil Lazarus --$tHidden in the Chaotic Tumble of Events: Toronto?s Rich in Michael Ondaatje?s In the Skin of a Lion /$rHelga Ramsey?Kurz --$tSpartan Luxury: A Poetics of Finitude and Fullness in A Strange and Sublime Address /$rSandhya Shetty --$tWriting Congo /$rHelen Tiffin --$tThe Black Diamond and the Queen BEE: Representations of Wealth, Corruption, and Women?s Sexuality in Two South African Novels /$rCheryl Stobie --$tThe Truth on Common Poverty and Uncommon Wealth in Rural Kenya: Stanley Gazemba?s The Stone Hills of Maragoli /$rAlex Nelungo Wanjala --$tNeoliberalism, Water Scarcity, and Common Wealth: Mohsin Hamid?s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia /$rDavid Waterman --$tIndigenous Cosmopolitanism /$rSneja Gunew --$tColonial Capitalism?s ?Disvaluation? of Indigenous Australians? Uncommon Wealth: Scholarly Analyses and Literary Representations /$rSheila Collingwood?Whittick --$tWeal/th in the Land: Re-Imagining Indigenous Land-Use in Australia /$rGeoff Rodoreda --$tIndigenous Degrowth and Global Capitalism: Exploring Notions of Development in New Zealand Literature /$rPaola Della Valle --$tWards and Rewards: Adoptability and Lost Children /$rJohn Mcleod --$tExploring the European ?Common? Wealth: A Black British Literary and Artistic Tour /$rFrancesco Cattani --$tAlpenreich | Alpine Riches: Writing Back Mountain Stories /$rEva?Maria Müller --$tHow to Be Rich, Popular, and Have It All: Conflicted Attitudes to Wealth and Poverty in Post-Crisis Fiction /$rMelissa Kennedy --$tNotes on the Contributors and Editors /$rHelga Ramsey-Kurz and Melissa Kennedy --$tIndex /$rHelga Ramsey-Kurz and Melissa Kennedy. 330 $aUncommon 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 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$vVolume 201. 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature$vCongresses 606 $aWealth in literature$vCongresses 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature 615 0$aWealth in literature 676 $a809.93358 702 $aRamsey-Kurz$b Helga 702 $aKennedy$b Melissa 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807293003321 996 $aUncommon wealths in postcolonial fiction$94123564 997 $aUNINA