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UNINA9910462002503321 |
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Titolo |
Re-Orientalism and South Asian identity politics : the oriental other within / / edited by Lisa Lau and Ana Cristina Mendes |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-68330-9 |
9786613660244 |
1-136-70792-1 |
0-203-81454-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (175 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 44 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LauLisa |
MendesAna Cristina |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Identity politics - South Asia |
Orientalism |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introducing re-Orientalism: a new manifestation of Orientalism: Lisa Lau and Ana Cristina Mendes; 2. Re-Orientalism in contemporary IndianWriting in English:Lisa Lau; 3. On the entrepreneurial ethos in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger: Sarah Brouillette; 4. 'Tomorrow's brother': contesting Orientalisms in Gopal Baratham's A Candle or the Sun: Wai-chew Sim; 5. Pulp frictions: Jigna Desai |
6. Re-Orientalism is on TV: from Salman Rushdie's The Aliens Show to The Kumars at No. 42: Ana Cristina Mendes7. Foreign fantasies and genres in Bride & Prejudice: Jane Austen re-Orientalizes British Bollywood: Tamara S. Wagner; 8. More than meets the eye: two kinds of re-Orientalism in Naseeruddin Shah's What If?: Mita Banerjee; 9. Re-Orientalisms Meditations on exoticism and transcendence, Otherness and the Self: Tabish Khair; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The |
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