Glorious Outlaws: Debt as a Tool in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction

Izabela Morska

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9783653056907
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory
• Index: Literature

This book addresses debt in postcolonial fiction: financial, social, historical, and cultural. The author examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and the consequences of debts paid and unpaid. Working at the intersection of critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and postcolonial studies, the book includes an overturning of the well-established argument about Conrad and race, an examination of the connection between debt and class both historical and contemporary, and direct comparisons between debt in fiction and current issues of debt in the economy world-wide.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction Love Your Debtor, Not Your Debtors’ Prison
• Chapter 1 Servant’s Betrayal: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Chapter 2 Laughing with Grief: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
• Chapter 3 Dress Your Dissent in Bright Colors: Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
• Chapter 4 The Pedagogy of Rape: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee and Zanele Muholi
• Chapter 5 Chinua Achebe and Conrad as the Object of Transference
• Brief Interlude The Merchant of Venice: The Bond of Melancholia
• Concluding Remarks How to Write Literary Criticism on Nothing a Year
• Works Cited
• Notes
• Name Index