Lau / Varughese Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation

Judging More than a Book by its Cover
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47422-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 132 Seiten, eBook

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

Lau, L.

Varughese, E. Dawson

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