Iskandar, Alexander : Oriental geography and romantic poetry / Kitty Scoular Datta -- 'Oriental gothic' : the medieval past in the colonial encounter / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- The limits of Orientalism : classical Indian dance and the discourse of heritage / Pallabi Chakravorty -- 'Truth is, at the moment, here' : Adrienne Rich and the ghazal / Sonali Barua -- Two Occidental heroines through Oriental eyes / Prodosh Bhattacharya -- Orientalism and its other(s) : re-reading Marx on india / Chandreyee Niyogi -- Reading 'the poverty of India' : a critical engagement with the Saidian interpretation of Orientalism / Sudeshna Banerjee -- Imaging the nature of the Orient : some contradictions behind colonial forest policies in India / Subhasis Biswas -- Can we cross the chasm? : agency and Orientalist discourse in the colonial Tamil context / Perundevi Srinivasan -- The 'octopodal idea' : Vincent Smith, Oxford University Press and the histories of India / Rimi B. Chatterjee -- Undreamt by tyrants and orthodoxies : Edward Said, Orientalism and the politics of cyberspace -- David Ewick.

HKBU library

YT2025 M09

Revised version of papers presented at the International Conference: Rereading Orientalism, held at Kolkata in August 2004.