Chakravorty In Stereotype

South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53776-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Literature Now

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakravorty, Mrinalini

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mrinalini Chakravorty is associate professor of English at the University of Virginia and concentrates on postcolonial literature and film; studies of race, gender, and sexuality; and cultural studies. She is particularly interested in the theoretical intersections among these areas, including but not limited to transnational approaches to the study of literary culture, aesthetic responses to globalization, and modes of minority discourse. She is the author of several articles that have appeared in differences, PMLA, Ariel, and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as other journals and collections.