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. In Stereotype considers the influential
work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica
Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to illustrate
how stereotypes about South Asia provide insight into the material
and psychic investments of contemporary imaginative texts: the
colonial novel, the transnational film, and the international
best-seller. Probing circumstances that range from the independence
of the Indian subcontinent to poverty tourism, civil war,
migration, domestic labor, and terrorist radicalism, Chakravorty
builds an interpretive lens for reading literary representations of
cultural and global difference. In the process, she also
reevaluates the fascination with transnational novels and films
that manufacture global differences by staging intersubjective
encounters between cultures through stereotypes.
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