Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-343) and index.
Contents
Literary theory and "Third World literature" : some contexts -- Languages of class, ideologies of immigration -- Jameson's rhetoric of otherness and the "National allegory" -- Salman Rushdie's Shame : postmodern migrancy and the representation of women -- Orientalism and after : ambivalence and metropolitan location in the work of Edward Said -- Marx on India : a clarification -- Indian literature : notes towards the definition of a category -- Three worlds theory : end of a debate.