Re-orientalism and South Asian identity politics : the oriental Other within / edited by Lisa Lau and Ana Cristina Mendes.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011Description: x,162 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415599023; 0415599024Subject(s): Orientalism | Identity politics -- South AsiaDDC classification: 959
Contents:
1 Introducing re-Orientalism: a new manifestation of Orientalism LISA LAU AND ANA CRISTINA MENDES 2 Re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian Writing in English LISA LAU 3 On the entrepreneurial ethos in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger SARAH BROUILLETTE 4 'Tomorrow's brother': contesting Orientalisms in Gopal Baratham's A Candle or the Sun WAI-CHEW SIM 5 Pulp frictions JIGNA DESAI 6 Re-Orientalism is on TV: from Salman Rushdie's The Aliens Show to The Kumars at No. 42 ANA CRISTINA MENDES 7 Foreign fantasies and genres in Bride & Prejudice: Jane Austen re-Orientalizes British Bollywood TAMARA S. WAGNER 8 More than meets the eye: two kinds of re-Orientalism in Naseeruddin Shah's What IJ? MITA BANERJEE Re-Orientalisms: meditations on exoticism and transcendence. Otherness and the Self TABISH KHAIR
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1 Introducing re-Orientalism: a new manifestation
of Orientalism
LISA LAU AND ANA CRISTINA MENDES
2 Re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian Writing
in English
LISA LAU
3 On the entrepreneurial ethos in Aravind Adiga's
The White Tiger
SARAH BROUILLETTE
4 'Tomorrow's brother': contesting Orientalisms in
Gopal Baratham's A Candle or the Sun
WAI-CHEW SIM
5 Pulp frictions
JIGNA DESAI
6 Re-Orientalism is on TV: from Salman Rushdie's
The Aliens Show to The Kumars at No. 42
ANA CRISTINA MENDES
7 Foreign fantasies and genres in Bride & Prejudice: Jane
Austen re-Orientalizes British Bollywood
TAMARA S. WAGNER
8 More than meets the eye: two kinds of re-Orientalism
in Naseeruddin Shah's What IJ?
MITA BANERJEE
Re-Orientalisms: meditations on exoticism and transcendence.
Otherness and the Self
TABISH KHAIR

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