{"product_id":"no-country-working-class-writing-in-the-age-of-globalization","title":"No Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Perera, Sonali\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 22-05-2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nCan there be a novel of the international working class despite the conditions and constraints of economic globalization? What does it mean to invoke working-class writing as an ethical intervention in an age of comparative advantage and outsourcing?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNo Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of working-class fiction by considering a range of international texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship. Her readings connect the literary radicalism of the 1930s to the feminist recovery projects of the 1970s, and the anticolonial and postcolonial fiction of the 1960s to today's counterglobalist struggles, building a new portrait of the twentieth century's global economy and the experiences of the working class within it.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPerera considers novels by the Indian anticolonial writer Mulk Raj Anand; the American proletarian writer Tillie Olsen; Sri Lankan Tamil\/Black British writer and political journalist Ambalavaner Sivanandan; Indian writer and bonded-labor activist Mahasweta Devi; South African-born Botswanan Bessie Head; and the fiction and poetry published under the collective signature Dabindu, a group of free-trade-zone garment factory workers and feminist activists in contemporary Sri Lanka. Articulating connections across the global North-South divide, Perera creates a new genealogy of working-class writing as world literature and transforms the ideological underpinnings casting literature as cultural practice.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nSonali Perera's No Country offers a powerful new theorizing of working-class literature in a global dimension. Gender inflections are given in unprecedented detail, through deeply learned and meticulously documented close readings of an astonishingly diversified collection of texts. Perera's readings of Marx are relevant to contemporary realities. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA timely, intellectually ambitious, and original piece of work. It hopes both to reinvigorate critical interest in a complex genre\/period category and, in the same movement, to provoke new thinking about such major categories as class, history, and literature itself. -- Ellen Rooney, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCaught in the stampede toward globalism, literary scholars have overlooked the rich archives of working-class internationalism. Sonali Perera's study is a bracing corrective to this trend, putting South Asian voices in dialogue with transcontinental interlocutors. Inspired by Raymond Williams, No Country leads us to a world literature that includes its many proletarian offshoots. -- Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis carefully argued book will interest scholars of contemporary transnational literature, Marxist approaches to literature, and African and South Asian literary studies; to my mind, however, its greatest impact will be on a younger generation of postcolonial critics, including graduate students, whose education has been so saturated with the theoretical truisms of postcolonial theory in its high phase that it is very difficult to imagine fresh readings of new and older texts outside of them. With such as the case I suspect that many younger scholars would rather give up on postcolonial studies altogether, dismissing it, as some have already done, as an outdated theoretical paradigm. This book challenges that claim. -- Ulka Anjaria ―\u003cbr\u003e\nContemporary Literature\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPerera's critical and careful reading of literature is a challenge to all those who read literature politically, and seek to grapple with the larger questions of equality and justice in our uneven and unequal world. -- Ahilan Kadirgamar ―\u003cbr\u003e\nHimal Southasian Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA welcome addition and a worthwhile read. ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPerera acknowledg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231151955\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50123730714928,"sku":"Trans_9780231151955","price":2210.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/71_qT-gevKL.jpg?v=1757337618","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/no-country-working-class-writing-in-the-age-of-globalization","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}