Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.
Acknowledgements Introduction PART I The Industry of Postcoloniality Postcolonial Writers and the Global Literary Marketplace PART II Salman Rushdie's 'Unbelonging': Authorship and 'The East' Locating J.M. Coetzee Zulfikar Ghose and Cosmopolitan Authentication Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
