La nouvelle de A. Desai est étudiée ici comme un exemple de l'écriture anglaise des auteurs indiens contemporains. L'auteur analyse les fondements de la nouvelle et montre comment la littérature encode les idéologies, elles-même présentes dans les filtres culturels, mais aussi les relations entre les cultures britannique et indienne dans la littérature. ©Electre 2025
The faces of carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody
This book offers a culturally-specific reading of Anita Desai's In Custody informed by indigenous practices and beliefs, which enables global audiences to access contemporary Indian writing in English. It shows that certain constants in multiple belief-systems also allow points of entry particularly in light of the internationalization of literatures in the post-colonial period. The author argues that Desai's novel configures the writer's view of and engagement with global society. It exemplifies transnational writings rooted in different canons which have always migrated, mixed, and mutated.
Marta Dvo(...)ák investigates the intertextual dialogue programmed into Desai's novel, which is part of the intercultural practices grounded in both relativism and universalism (Homi Bhabha). She shows how literature encodes ideologies, and how the ideologies are presented through the cultural filter of the author's discourse conditioning readerly responses. Her study engages with the hybridized narrative traditions of English-language Indian writing, showing how narratives circulate from one culture to another, displacing the migrant symbols and myths through which our global society manufactures meaning.
Paru le : 07/01/2009
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Marta Dvorak
Collection(s) : Collection CNED-PUF
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-13-057108-7
EAN13 : 9782130571087
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 174
Hauteur: 20.0 cm / Largeur 15.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.5 cm
Poids: 213 g
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