Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation

Judging More Than a Book by Its Cover
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47421-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2863 g

This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study of text with the study of materiality of the book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lau, Lisa

Varughese, E Dawson

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Contextualising book covers and their changing roles; Lisa Lau 2. Positioning Indian Women's Writing in English (IWWE); Lisa Lau 3. The Mediated Woman on Indian Women's Writing book covers; Lisa Lau 4. The Post-millennial Indian Woman on the book covers of Kala's Almost Single and Gokhale's Priya; E. Dawson Varughese 5. Conclusions; E. Dawson Varughese Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Lau is a lecturer at Keele University, specializing in postcolonial theory and literature, South Asian writing in English, and gender studies. Her keynote publication, Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within (2011), has been followed with further academic journal articles developing re-Orientalism theory and discourse, and most recently, her co-authored volume Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014).

E. Dawson Varughese is a global cultural studies scholar, and the author of Beyond The Postcolonial (2012) and Reading New India (2013). She is currently working on a book entitled Genre Fiction of New India: post-millennial receptions of 'weird' narratives. See her work at: www.beyondthepostcolonial.com