In stereotype : South Asia in the global literary imaginary /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chakravorty, Mrinalini (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:	Literature Now.
Subjects:	South Asian literature > 20th century > History and criticism. South Asian literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

Table of 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.