Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization? -- 1. Colonialism, race, and class. Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern -- 2. PostcolonIal Sri Lanka and "Black struggles For socialism". Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan's . When Memory Dies -- 3. Gender, genre, and globalization -- 4. Socialized labor and the critique of identity politics. Bessie Head's A Question of Power -- Epilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social imagination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index