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Chakravorty, Mrinalini.

In stereotypeSouth Asia in the global literary imaginary /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In stereotypeMrinalini Chakravorty.
Reminder of title:	South Asia in the global literary imaginary /
Author:	Chakravorty, Mrinalini.
Published:	New York :Columbia University Press,2014.
Description:	1 online resource (337 p.)
Subject:	Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Online resource:	click for full text
ISBN:	9780231165969

In stereotypeSouth Asia in the global literary imaginary /
Chakravorty, Mrinalini.

In stereotypeSouth Asia in the global literary imaginary /[electronic resource] :Mrinalini Chakravorty. - New York :Columbia University Press,2014. - 1 online resource (337 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In stereotype : South Asia in the global literary imaginary -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Stereotypes as Provocation -- 1. Why the Stereotype? Why South Asia? -- 2. To Understand Me, You'll Have to Swallow a World: Margins, Multitudes, and the Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children -- 3. Slumdog or White Tiger? The Abjection and Allure of Slums -- 4. The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost: Subaltern Stereotypes and Postcolonial Melancholia -- 5. From Bangladesh to Brick Lane: The Biocultural Stereotypes of Migrancy -- 6. Good and Bad Transnationalisms: Outsourcing and Terror -- Epilogue: The Afterlife of Stereotypes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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 transnational film, and the international best-seller. Probing circumstances that range from the independence of the Indian subcontinent to poverty tourism, civil war, migration, domestic labor, and terrorist radicalism, Chakravorty builds an interpretive lens for reading literary representations of cultural and global difference. In the process, she also reevaluates the fascination with transnational novels and films that manufacture global differences by staging intersubjective encounters between cultures through stereotypes.

ISBN: 9780231165969Subjects--Topical Terms:

271267
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

LC Class. No.: PK5416

Dewey Class. No.: 891.4

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