Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism South Asian readings in postcolonialism

Malreddy, Pavan Kumar 1977-

Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism South Asian readings in postcolonialism - Los Angels Sage 2015

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-165) and index.

Section I. Discourses: orientalism, terrorism, and popular culture -- Orientalism(s) after 9/11 -- Imagining the terrorist: a post-orientalist inquiry -- "Pulp orientalism": representations of Afghanistan and Pakistan in popular fiction -- Section II. Disjunctures: humanism and interdisciplinarity -- After orientalism: difference and disjuncture in postcolonial theory -- Postcolonialism: interdisciplinary or interdiscursive? -- Section III. Indigenism(s): cosmopolitanism, rights, and cultural politics -- Cosmopolitanism within: the case of R.K. Narayan's fictional Malgudi -- (An)other way of being human: indigenous alternatives to postcolonial humanism -- Margins of India: Kancha Ilaiah's "nationalogues".

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Postcolonialism in literature.
Orientalism in literature.
Terrorism in literature.
South Asian literature--History and criticism.--21st century

PN56.P555 / M35 2015

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