Imagination and the Contemporary Novel
1. Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel 2. Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the state of emergency 3. The pastoral and the postmodern 4. Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain 5. Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim 6. Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies Conclusion Works cited.