Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Foreign fields that are 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 -- Racism and the English countryside : Contemporary Black Britain in 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 -- Conclusion : Local futures, global fissures.
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