In Stereotype : : South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary / / Mrinalini Chakravorty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Chakravorty, Mrinalini,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Literature Now
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue: Stereotypes as Provocation --; 1. Why the Stereotype? Why South Asia? --; 2. To Understand Me, You'll Have to Swallow a World --; 3. Slumdog or White Tiger? --; 4. The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost --; 5. From Bangladesh to Brick Lane --; 6. Good and Bad Transnationalisms? --; Epilogue: The Afterlife of Stereotypes --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231537766; 9783110649772; 9783110665864
• DOI: 10.7312/chak16596
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mrinalini Chakravorty.

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.