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Stereotypes as provocation -- Why the stereotype? Why South Asia? -- To understand me, you'll have to swallow a wor

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In stereotype: South Asia in the global literary imaginary
 9780231537766, 9780231165969, 9780231165976, 0231165978

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 transnationalisms : outsourcing and terror --
The afterlife of stereotypes.

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