Re-orientalism and Indian writing in English
By: Lisa Lau, Lecturer, Keele University, UK and  Om Prakash Dwivedi, Assistant Professor, Taiz University, Yemen
Contributors: Dwivedi, O. P. (Om Prakash)
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137401557
Subjects: Indic literature (English); History and criticism; Orientalism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
Description: "This book examines the developing roles and practices of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian writing in English. Re-Orientalism theory has grown exponentially in the 21st century, and developed a discourse of its own, as well as novel, strategic processes and practices. It takes a leaf out of Orientalism as practiced by the West, but builds upon Orientalist frameworks and narrative devices. This study focuses on different and novel forms of re-Orientalism strategies currently being deployed in social realism fiction, such as the increasing use of unreliable narrator, reverse Orientalism, and the role of whimsy, as well as re-Orientalism in the depiction of urban India. This book also looks at the commodification enabled by re-Orientalism within the publishing industry, in India and in the West, and how the deployment of such impacts upon the representation and understanding of contemporary Indian identity, culture, and literature"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsList of abbreviations 1. Introducing Re-Orientalism Theory and Discourse in Indian Writing in English (IWE) 2. The Re-orientalising Strategy of the Unreliable Narrator  3. Reverse Orientalism and Whimsy 4. Urban India Re-Orientalised 5. Commodification and Re-OrientalismConclusion.