In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary (Literature Now) by Chakravorty, Mrinalini

Columbia University Press, 2014-09-02. Hardcover. Good. 100x17x144. Used copy with some notes and underlining. Wear to the exterior. DJ has some chipping.

New York.: Columbia University Press.. 2014.. Black & white illustrations, xiv + 320pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining cultural identity in contemporary literature and shows how the stereotype's ambivalent nature exposes the crises of liberal development in South Asia. In Stereotype considers the influential work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to illustrate how stereotypes about South Asia provide insight into the material and psychic investments of contemporary imaginative texts: the colonial novel, the… Read More

Columbia University Press , pp. 336 Index. Hardback. Used.

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Hardback. New. Confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature.

Columbia Univ Pr, 2014. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 9.00x5.00x1.00 inches.

SR-ECOMMERCE. New.

SR-ECOMMERCE. New.

Columbia University Press, 2014. Hardcover. New.

Columbia University Press, 2014. Hardcover. New.