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At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction.
List of contents
Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introducing Re-Orientalism Theory and Discourse in Indian Writing in English (IWE) 2. The Re-orientalising Strategy of the Unreliable Narrator 3. Reverse Orientalism and Whimsy 4. Urban India Re-Orientalised 5. Commodification and Re-Orientalism Conclusion
About the author
Lisa Lau is a Lecturer at Keele University, specializing in postcolonial theory and literature, South Asian writing in English, and gender studies. Her publications focus on diasporic South Asian literature, New Indian Women, and issues of power, class, representation and domesticity. She developed re-Orientalism theory, and in 2011 co-authored Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within.
Om Prakash Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in English at Taiz University, Yemen. His areas of research include postcolonial theory and literature, Indian writing in English, and interdisciplinary studies. His recent publications include Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age (co-ed. with Martin Kich, 2013), a collection of short stories, The World to Come (2014), and Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014).
Summary
At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction.
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“A timely piece of work. Not only does it survey key
fiction texts which speak to and of post-millennial India, it raises
theoretical issues of representation amidst the shifting landscape of writing
and publishing in India, and the reception of such published material in the West.
This theoretical positioning is the book’s most valuable component and it works
at its best when the analyses of the texts and the publishing/literary scene
connect back to this paradigm.” (E. Dawson Varughese, Asiatic, Vol. 9 (2), December,
2015)
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"A timely piece of work. Not only does it survey key fiction texts which speak to and of post-millennial India, it raises theoretical issues of representation amidst the shifting landscape of writing and publishing in India, and the reception of such published material in the West. This theoretical positioning is the book's most valuable component and it works at its best when the analyses of the texts and the publishing/literary scene connect back to this paradigm." (E. Dawson Varughese, Asiatic, Vol. 9 (2), December, 2015)
