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Author:

Chakravorty, Mrinalini, author.

Title:

In stereotype : South Asia in the global literary imaginary / Mrinalini Chakravorty.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

South Asian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
South Asian literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
South Asian literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
1900 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Literature now

ISBN:

023116596X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231165969 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)866252054

LCCN:

2013040700

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)