Reorienting Orientalism/ edited by Chandreyee Niyogi

Cover; Contents; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Iskandar, Alexander: Oriental Geography and Romantic Poetry; 2. 'Oriental Gothic': The Medieval Past in the Colonial Encounter; 3. The Limits of Orientalism: Classical Indian Dance and the Discourse of Heritage; 4. 'Truth Is, at the Moment, Here': Adrienne Rich and the Ghazal; 5. Two Occidental Heroines through Oriental Eyes; 6. Orientalism and its Other(s): Re-reading Marx on India; 7. Reading 'the Poverty of India': A Critical Engagement with the Saidian Interpretation of Orientalism. 8. Imaging the Nature of the Orient: Some Contradictions behind Colonial Forest Policies in India9. Can We Cross the Chasm? Agency and Orientalist Discourse in the Colonial Tamil Context; 10. The 'Octopodal Idea': Vincent Smith, Oxford University Press and the Histories of India; 11. Undreamt by Tyrants and Orthodoxies: Edward Said, Orientalism and the Politics of Cyberspace; About the Editor and Contributors; Index.