Lisa Lau's Outputs (3)

Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation: Judging a Book by More Than Its Cover (2015)
Book
Lau, L., & Varughese, E. D. (2015). Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation: Judging a Book by More Than Its Cover. (1). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474223

This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, i... Read More about Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation: Judging a Book by More Than Its Cover.

Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014)
Book
Lau, L., & Dwivedi, O. P. (2014). Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137401564

At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing i... Read More about Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English.

Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market (2014)
Book
Lau, L., & Dwivedi, O. P. (2014). O. P. Dwivedi, & L. Lau (Eds.). Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437716

Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volume contends has been both gatekeeper as well as a significant force in shaping the production and consu... Read More about Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market.