Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

Chapter 1 Introduction: Interrogating the Production, Circulation and Reception of ‘Difference’ in Globalized Cultures

Chapter 2 Subversive Translation and Lexical Empathy: Pedagogies of Cortesia and Transnational Multilingual Poetics

Chapter 3 The Production and Productivity of Humanitarian Fiction: Postcolonial Shame and Neocolonial Crises

Chapter 4 Still Devouring Frida Kahlo: Psychobiography versus Postcolonial and Disability Readings

Chapter 6 Success and the City: Working in the World’s Capital in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Chapter 7 Borderless (Alien) Nations: Disposable Bodies and Biopolitical Effacement in Min Sook Lee’s Docu-Poem

Chapter 8 Public Art in the Production of a Global City: Jamie Hilder’s Clashing Versions of Vancouver

Chapter 9 A Nation Goes Adrift: Subaltern Inter-Identity in José Saramago’s The Stone Raft

Chapter 10 ‘Something Terrible Happened’: Spectacles of Gendered Violence and Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun

Chapter 11 Alternative Modernities and Othered Masculinities in Mira Nair’s The Namesake

Chapter 12 (Un)Veiling Women’s Bodies: Transnational Feminisms in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero