Book Review: \u3ci\u3eThe Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness.\u3c/i\u3e Edited by Diana Dimitrova. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-415-71152-4. pp. 162. £90 (hardback).

(excerpt) This exceptionally insightful volume, The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness, is a compendium of essays that demonstrate various aspects of ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ as being continuously produced and challenged in a variety of spaces. Dimitrova begins the volume by introducing the term ‘otherism’ to denote the universal discourse of ‘otherness and othering’ (p. 7), and the stereotypical construction of otherness that includes the ‘other’ and ‘othered’ (p. 8). Divided into three parts, the volume attempts to interpret ‘otherness’, its cultural meaning, and the ideological implications of creating otherness. The essays in the first part discusses aspects in ‘other’ lands: diaspora, religion, and literature; the second part deals with issues of creating otherness: language, religion, and literature; and the third..