Table of contents
Series editor’s preface
XI
Acknowledgements
XIII
Contributors
XV
Foreword: Literary politics and perception: Moving beyond
representation
9
Part I.Traversing unfamiliar spaces
Chapter 1.Magical modernities: The familiar and the exotic on Indian lifestyle
TV
17
Chapter 2.Kipling’s “wild and strange” India: The “insider” perspective of the
short stories
35
Chapter 3.Exoticism and familiarity in Victor Segalen’s travel poetry
51
Chapter 4.Cambodia through Western eyes: The exotic, the familiar, and the
universal
67
Chapter 5.Italian travel narratives on twentieth century China: Alterity, distance
and self-identification
79
Chapter 6.Affect labelling as a means of challenging exotic stereotypes in readings
of Salwa Bakr’s “The Golden Chariot”
95
Chapter 7.Exoticization of Russia and the Russian people in Polish
literature
109
Part II.Mediating local voices
Chapter 8.Power and powerlessness: The literary exoticization of women
127
Chapter 9.Challenging taxonomies of the local and the exotic: The works of Hansda
Showvendra Shekhar
139
Chapter 10.Overturning the familiar and the exotic in the fiction of Ranendra and
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
155
Chapter 11.Translation as the interplay of the familiar and the exotic in
A. K. Ramanujan’s Poems of Love and War
173
Chapter 12.The exotic and the familiar in translation
189
Chapter 13.The familiar, the exotic, and Madhwacharya’s Bhasha
theory: The Sangraha Ramayana and its translations
197
Chapter 14.Exoticizing 1984: Trauma, telling and the anti-Sikh pogrom
213
Part III.Transcending familiar boundaries
Chapter 15.André Brink’s A Dry White Season as film: Foreignization
and domestication
227
Chapter 16.“Thou art the unanswered question”: On the imagology of the riddle of the
Sphinx
241
Chapter 17.From exotic to domestic: The other, the native and cultural relativism in
Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
253
Chapter 18.V. S. Naipaul and Jhumpa Lahiri: The politics of identity and the
performance of exoticism
265
Chapter 19.Turning the exotic into the familiar: Tabish Khair’s novels in
context
281
Chapter 20.Coloured exoticism in Toni Morrison’s God Help the
Child
295
Chapter 21.Exotic madness in Caribbean literature: From marginalization to
empowerment and indigenization
309
Chapter 22.Plant/woman encounters in contemporary fairy tale adaptations
323
Bibliography
337
Index
357
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