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Auteur(s) : Chakravorty, Mrinalini
Titre(s) : In stereotype [Texte imprimé] : South Asia in the global literary imaginary / Mrinalini Chakravorty
Publication : New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Description matérielle : xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Literature now
Lien à la collection : Literature now
Comprend : 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(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index
In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics
and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force
and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting
hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing.
She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining cultural identity in contemporary
literature and shows how the stereotype's ambivalent nature exposes the crises of
liberal development in South Asia. In Stereotype considers the influential work of
Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan
Bhagat, among others, to illustrate 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 circumstances
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. In the
process, she also reevaluates the fascination with transnational novels and films
that manufacture global differences by staging intersubjective encounters between
cultures through stereotypes
Sujet(s) : Imagologie
Stéréotype (psychologie) -- Dans la littérature
Littérature sud-asiatique -- Thèmes, motifs
Asie du Sud -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231165969. - ISBN 023116596X. - ISBN 9780231537766 (erroné). - ISBN 023153776X
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451855833
Notice n° :
FRBNF45185583
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