Lisa Lau's Outputs (4)

The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants (2018)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2018). The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants. cultural geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474018786033

Focusing on returnee Indian authors, this article contributes to analytical perspectives on imagined geographies. We map the imagined geographies of 2010s Delhi and India as experienced and created by Indian returnee migrant authors, drawing on the h... Read More about The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants.

Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi (2018)
Journal Article
Lau. (2018). Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 372-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1461984

In the (re)presentation of India by Indian authors writing in English there is an overlooked, long-standing tradition of sterling commentaries produced by social analysts. In the best of that tradition which blurs the divide between the literary and... Read More about Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi.

A postcolonial framing of Indian commercial surrogacy: issues, representations, and orientalisms (2018)
Journal Article
Lau. (2018). A postcolonial framing of Indian commercial surrogacy: issues, representations, and orientalisms. Gender, Place and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1471047

Although only legalised in 2002, Indian commercial gestational surrogacy (CGS) is an industry worth an estimated 2.3 billion USD to India at its height. Not only has this contentious topic been researched extensively from a spectrum of academic angle... Read More about A postcolonial framing of Indian commercial surrogacy: issues, representations, and orientalisms.

Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2018)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2018). Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989416631791

This article offers a comparative reading of the novel and film adaptation of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, looking at the ways these texts represent changing Western public perceptions towards Pakistan and vice-versa along the temporal axis 2001–200... Read More about Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.