Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction 1st Edition by Helga Ramsey Kurz, Melissa Kennedy 9789004359581 9004359583

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ISBN 10: 9004359583

ISBN 13: 9789004359581

Author: Helga Ramsey-Kurz; Melissa Kennedy

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.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Into Our Labours: Work and Literary Form in World Literature

3. Hidden in the Chaotic Tumble of Events: Toronto’s Rich in In the Skin of a Lion

4. Spartan Luxury: A Poetics of Finitude and Fullness in A Strange and Sublime Address

5. Writing Congo

6. The Black Diamond and the Queen BEE

7. The Truth on Common Poverty and Uncommon Wealth in Rural Kenya

8. Neoliberalism, Water Scarcity, and Common Wealth

9. Indigenous Cosmopolitanism

10. Colonial Capitalism’s ‘Disvaluation’ of Indigenous Australians’ Uncommon Wealth

11. Weal/th in the Land: Re-Imagining Indigenous Land-Use in Australia

12. Indigenous Degrowth and Global Capitalism

13. Wards and Rewards: Adoptability and Lost Children

14. Exploring the European ‘Common’ Wealth

15. Alpenreich | Alpine Riches: Writing Back Mountain Stories

16. How to Be Rich, Popular, and Have It All

17. Notes on the Contributors and Editors

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