South Asia and its Others: Reading the “Exotic”

Atreyee Phukan · V.G. Julie Rajan

Oct 2020 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The essays in South Asia and Its Others: Reading the "Exotic" reveal fresh perspectives on the notion of exoticism in South Asia, and also challenge and extend existing scholarship in the broader discourse of what constitutes South Asia. Significantly, the anthology considers how the phenomenon of "exoticization" may be interpreted as a strategic methodology utilized by writers of South Asian descent to examine critically both the post-colonialist ramifications of casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence across differing cultural contexts within the region, and how current perceptions of "native" and "diasporic" South Asian subjects problematize ideologies of authenticity across Western-Eastern divides. The papers in this collection show how authors of South Asian ethnicity construct their own version of an "exotic" South Asia globally and the colonialist discourse of "exocitism" is employed as a discursive tool that uncovers the ambiguity that continues to mark the marginality of identities even today.

About the author

V.G. Julie Rajan is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, U.S.A. Her monographs

include, The Phenomenon of Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence (Routledge, forthcoming), and Femininity, Nation, and Violence:

Post-Independence Narratives of Resistance Written by Women Residing in India (forthcoming). Rajan's edited collections include The Home and the

World: South Asia in Transition (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2006),

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (Ashgate, 2008), and From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in

Women's Aesthetic Production (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2009).

Atreyee Phukan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of San

Diego, U.S.A., where she teaches postcolonial and world literature. Her

principal research interests lie in expressions of cultural and racial

"hybridity" in literatures of the Caribbean and South Asian diaspora.

Phukan's work on these literatures appear in the anthology 19th and 20th

Century World Writers (2004) and in the Journal of Caribbean Literatures

(January 2008). Phukan's other publications include The Home and the

World: South Asia in Transition (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2006). She

is currently working on a book-length project that examines the historical

and cultural place of Indian indentureship in Trinidadian literature.

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