Lisa Lau's Outputs (28)

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.

India’s women and the writing process: Interview with Manju Kapur. (2015)
Journal Article
Lau. (2015). India’s women and the writing process: Interview with Manju Kapur. South Asian Popular Culture, 95-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2015.1027040

Lisa Lau interviews Manju Kapur, author of five novels (Difficult Daughters, 1998; A Married Woman, 2003; Home, 2006; The Immigrant, 2008; Custody, 2011) and editor of Shaping the World (2014).

India through re-Orientalist Lenses (2014)
Journal Article
Lau, & Mendes, A. (2014). India through re-Orientalist Lenses. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 706-727. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2014.984619

Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a discourse which comes out of and is inescapably informed by postcolonial and diasporic legacies. The investigation of re-Orientalism has revealed new... Read More about India through re-Orientalist Lenses.

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.

The Male South Asian Domestic Servant: Master-Servant Relationships, Class Chasms, and Systematic Emasculation (2014)
Journal Article
Lau, L. The Male South Asian Domestic Servant: Master-Servant Relationships, Class Chasms, and Systematic Emasculation. The Sri Lanka Journal of Humanities, 37(1-2), 35. https://doi.org/10.4038/sljh.v37i1-2.7202

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.

Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg (2014)
Book Chapter
Lau, L. (2014). Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg. In Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (191-217). New York: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211710_012

This article compares and juxtaposes the handling of Coorg, the representation of its community, the depiction of the land and people, its rituals, festivals, customs and culture, through two novels written in English, both set in Coorg. Novels set i... Read More about Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg.

No longer good girls: sexual transgressions in Indian women's writings (2013)
Journal Article
Lau, L. (2014). No longer good girls: sexual transgressions in Indian women's writings. Gender, Place and Culture, 21(3), 279-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2013.791252

Indian women's writing in English has long depicted Indian women as victims of society, whose rights are routinely exploited and whose welfare and happiness are commonly sacrificed for the good of their families and communities. The literature has of... Read More about No longer good girls: sexual transgressions in Indian women's writings.