Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neolibe... - 9781836245551

Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neoliberal ScriptAuthor(s): Shakti Jaising\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781836245551, 978-1836245551\nSynopsis\nBeyond Alterity contests a core tendency in postcolonial studies as well as emerging critiques of neoliberalismto assume that nations of the Global South are categorically distinct from their counterparts in the North and that they provide an alternative, or even an antidote, to the competitive and individualistic cultures of the advanced capitalist world. Through a textured analysis of cultural production from contemporary India, Shakti Jaising argues that neoliberal capitalism has produced significant continuities in class dynamics and subjective experience across the North-South dividecontinuities that are at least as worthy of our consideration as differences arising from colonialism and its aftereffects.\n\nThe book engages .