Beginning a discussion of cosmopolitanism and nationalism in a globalized world with Latife Tekin's novel Berji Kristin Çöp Masallari (1996) (which is also translated to English as: Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills), may appear extraneous. In this novel, Tekin narrates the lives of slum dwellers in the marginalized neighborhoods of Istanbul. A careful reading of this text renders visible how these communities are part and parcel of the ways in which capitalist globalization permeates the Third World. It is a powerful reminder of how the urban-subaltern other of capitalist globality, the "wasteland" of transnational operations of neocolonial globalization, while produced by and inserted into the processes of globalization, remains the unexamined and strategically excluded site in our sophisticated vocabulary of cultural studies. For the specific concerns I aim to discuss in this chapter, I take John Berger's confessions in the preface to Tekin's novel as a telling example of the necessary forgetting of the sub-altern in the South.