Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism : South Asian readings in postcolonialism
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Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism : South Asian readings in postcolonialism
Sage Publications, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-165) and index
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Description
This book's contribution lies in its careful synthesis of concepts and concrete examples on issues of contemporary concern: terrorism, Orientalism, and Dalit Bahujan movements, and their reception in the popular media as well as in academic literature.
Drawing from the latest developments in South Asian literary studies, this book examines the uses of postcolonial theory in understanding the structural transformations enabled by post-9/11 discourses of Orientalism and terrorism; the internal contradictions between South Asian approaches to postcolonialism (Subaltern Studies) and its European adaptations; and the resistance produced by the indigenization of local literary traditions in the work of select South Asian literary figures. The three sub-sections-"discourses," "disjunctures," and "indigenisms"-provide the conceptual space necessary for a thematic guidance of the respective arguments presented in this book.
This book will be useful to scholars specializing in South Asian studies, Indian English Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Sociology, and Political Science.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: DISCOURSES: ORIENTALISM, TERRORISM, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Orientalism(s) After 9/11
Imagining the Terrorist: A Post-orientalist Inquiry
"Pulp Orientalism" : Representations of Afghanistan and Pakistan in Popular Fiction
II: DISJUNCTURES: HUMANISM AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
After Orientalism:Difference and Disjuncture in Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonialism: Interdisciplinary or Interdiscursive?
III: INDIGENISM(S): COSMOPOLITANISM, RIGHTS, AND CULTURAL POLITICS
Cosmopolitanism Within: The Case of R.K. Narayan's Fictional Malgudi
(An)Other way of Being Human: Indigenous Alternatives to Postcolonial Humanism
Margins of India: Kancha Ilaiah's Postcolonial "Nationalogues"
Bibliography
Index
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