The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature

Acknowledgements Introduction Foreign Fields that will be Forever England PART I: LEGACIES OF EMPIRE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE 1. The Politics of Postimperial Melancholia and Rural Heritage in the 1980s: W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn 2. Rural Routes of Empire, Colonial Nostalgia and the Thatcher Years: V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival 3. Contemporary Black Britain and the English Countryside: David Dabydeen's Disappearance and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore PART II: LEGACIES OF EMPIRE IN THE POSTCOLONIAL RURAL 4. Towards a Provincial Cosmopolitanism: Amitava Kumar's Bombay London New York 5. A Distinctly Uncosmopolitan Present: The Postcolonial Rural in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary Maps 6. Historicising Neocolonial Globalisation and Political Revolution: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place Epilogue Local Futures, Global Fissures Bibliography Index