TY  - GEN
AU  - Chakravorty, Mrinalini
TI  - In stereotype: South Asia in the global literary imaginary
SN  - 9780231165976
U1  - 891.4 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
KW  - South Asian literature
KW  - Stereotypes in literature
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - Provocation
N1  - Includes notes, bibliography and Index
N2  - 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.

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/in-stereotype/9780231165969
ER  -