This book addresses financial, social, historical, and cultural debt in postcolonial fiction. It examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and includes direct comparisons between debt in fiction and current issues of debt in the economy world-wide.

Izabela Morska is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She is a former ISEEES Visiting Scholar and BBRG Affiliated Scholar at the University of California-Berkeley, and a Yaddo, Hawthornden, and Iowa International Writers’ Workshop Fellow. She teaches at the English Department of Gda?sk University, Poland.

Contents: Debt in contemporary and postcolonial fiction – Financial, social, historical, and cultural debt – Cultural outsiders and social outcasts – Refusal to pay debts – Debt in fiction and the economy world-wide.