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Introduction: Foreign fields that will be 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
Contemporary Black Britain and the English countryside: 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
Epilogue: Local futures, global fissures.
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
Contemporary Black Britain and the English countryside: 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
Epilogue: Local futures, global fissures.