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1. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture

   Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders

   Edited by Ana Cristina Mendes

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   In Salman Rushdie’s novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked – even if central – dimension...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics

   The Oriental Other Within

   Edited by Lisa Lau, Ana Cristina Mendes

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East,...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge