Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index.
Contents:
Stereotypes as provocation -- Why the stereotype? Why South Asia? -- To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world : margins, multitudes, and the nation in Salman 's Midnight's children -- Slumdog or white tiger? the abjection and allure of slums -- The dead that haunt Anil's ghost : subaltern stereotypes and postcolonial melancholia -- From Bangladesh to Brick lane : the biocultural stereotypes of migrancy -- Good and bad Indians : outsourcing and terror -- The afterlife of stereotypes.
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