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Indian writing in English and issues of visual representation : judging more than a book by its cover / Lisa Lau and E. Dawson Varughese.
- Title
- Indian writing in English and issues of visual representation : judging more than a book by its cover / Lisa Lau and E. Dawson Varughese.
- Author
- Lau, Lisa
- Publication
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Additional Authors
- Dawson Varughese, E.
- Description
- ix, 132 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume is dedicated to studying issues of visual representation in a postcolonial context. It explores the significance of book covers, forces of marketing, politics of identity, issues of representation, and the impact of globalisation on New India. It case studies contemporary Indian women's writings in English, analysing themes of book cover images released by Western publishing houses as well as Indian ones. The question of how the Indian woman is represented is at the heart of this enquiry. This volume considers the roles and strategies of the publishing industry, the changing meanings and designs of books jackets, the branding of authors, positions of Indian women writers in the marketplace as well as in the literary context, and considers reader reception and consumption practices. An interdisciplinary study, this book will be of interest to those following the developments of New India as well as those interested in the continued 'seeing' of India through Western lenses"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave pivot
- Subject
- Indic literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
- Indic literature (English) > 21st century > History and criticism
- Books > India > Marketing
- Book covers > India
- Book covers > Social aspects
- Women authors, Indic
- Literature publishing > India
- Book industries and trade > India
- Women in literature
- Women in art
- Book covers
- Indic literature (English)
- LITERARY CRITICISM > General
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Contextualising book covers and their changing roles -- 2. Positioning Indian Women's writing in English -- 3. The mediated woman in Indian women's writing in English (IWWE) books covers -- 4. The post-millennial Indian woman on the book covers of Kala's Almost Single (2007) and Gokhale's PRiya in Incredible Indyaa (2011) -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9781137474216
- 1137474211
- 9781137474230 (canceled/invalid)
- 1137474238 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781137474223 (canceled/invalid)
- 113747422X (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014504346
- OCLC
- 913793240
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library