Ramsey-kurz

The essays collected in Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction ＂follow the money＂ to illuminate literature’s keen awareness of the multiple and often conflicting meanings of wealth and commons in formerly colonized spaces.

Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Ph.D. (1992), Universität Innsbruck, is associate professor of English literature at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her publications include books and articles on migrant literature and refugee narratives, as well as the monograph The Non-Literate Other (Rodopi, 2007).

Melissa Kennedy, Ph.D. (2008) lectures in literature and culture and media studies at the University of Vienna. She has published extensively on New Zealand, Maori fiction, and economic inequality. Her recent monograph is Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics(Palgrave 2017).