Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction. World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization? 1
5. 1. Colonialism, race, and class. Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern 27
6. 2. PostcolonIal Sri Lanka and “Black struggles For socialism”. Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan’s . When Memory Dies 47
7. 3. Gender, genre, and globalization 75
8. 4. Socialized labor and the critique of identity politics. Bessie Head’s A Question of Power 122
9. Epilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social imagination 164
10. Notes 173
11. Bibliography 205
12. Index 215