Table of Contents:
  • Section I. Discourses: orientalism, terrorism, and popular culture
  • Orientalism(s) after 9/11
  • Imagining the terrorist: a post-orientalist inquiry
  • "Pulp orientalism": representations of Afghanistan and Pakistan in popular fiction
  • Section II. Disjunctures: humanism and interdisciplinarity
  • After orientalism: difference and disjuncture in postcolonial theory
  • Postcolonialism: interdisciplinary or interdiscursive?
  • Section III. Indigenism(s): cosmopolitanism, rights, and cultural politics
  • Cosmopolitanism within: the case of R.K. Narayan's fictional Malgudi
  • (An)other way of being human: indigenous alternatives to postcolonial humanism
  • Margins of India: Kancha Ilaiah's "nationalogues".