| Description |
1 online resource (545 pages). |
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Literature now |
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Literature now.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereoptypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues such commonplaces are crucial to defining cultural identity and ethics in contemporary literature, as well as ideas about otherness, and shows how the stereotype's ambivalent nature exposes the many crises of liberal development in South Asia. Chakravorty considers the influential work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to show 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 contexts 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. More generally, she reevaluates the contemporary fascination with transnational novels and films that manufacture global differences by staging intersubjective encounters between cultures through stereotypes. |
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South Asian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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South Asian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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South Asian literature. (OCoLC)fst01127238
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst01431525
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chakravorty, Mrinalini. In stereotype. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] 9780231165969 (DLC) 2013040700 (OCoLC)866252054 |
| ISBN |
9780231537766 (electronic bk.) |
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023153776X (electronic bk.) |
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