India through re-Orientalist Lenses
@article{Mendes2015IndiaTR, title={India through re-Orientalist Lenses}, author={Ana Cristina Mendes and Lisa Lau}, journal={Interventions}, year={2015}, volume={17}, pages={706 - 727} }
Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a discourse which comes out of and is inescapably informed by postcolonial and diasporic legacies. The investigation of re-Orientalism has revealed new, even radical strategies of eastern identity construction which, while not escaping Orientalism, manage to Orientalize subversively and with considerable self-awareness. This essay highlights two strategies currently being utilized in the…
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