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1. 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