Reorienting Orientalism / editor, Chandreyee Niyogi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Niyogi, Chandreyee, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W.

Orientalism.

Orientalism--India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2006.

Summary:

Revised version of papers presented at the International Conference: Rereading Orientalism, held at Kolkata in August 2004.

Contents:

Iskandar, Alexander : Oriental geography and romantic poetry / Kitty Scoular Datta

'Oriental gothic' : the medieval past in the colonial encounter / Ananya Jahanara Kabir

The limits of Orientalism : classical Indian dance and the discourse of heritage / Pallabi Chakravorty

'Truth is, at the moment, here' : Adrienne Rich and the ghazal / Sonali Barua

Two Occidental heroines through Oriental eyes / Prodosh Bhattacharya

Orientalism and its other(s) : re-reading Marx on india / Chandreyee Niyogi

Reading 'the poverty of India' : a critical engagement with the Saidian interpretation of Orientalism / Sudeshna Banerjee

Imaging the nature of the Orient : some contradictions behind colonial forest policies in India / Subhasis Biswas

Can we cross the chasm? : agency and Orientalist discourse in the colonial Tamil context / Perundevi Srinivasan

The 'octopodal idea' : Vincent Smith, Oxford University Press and the histories of India / Rimi B. Chatterjee

Undreamt by tyrants and orthodoxies : Edward Said, Orientalism and the politics of cyberspace

David Ewick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

93-5280-286-1

93-5280-548-8