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Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English.
Through a comparison with theatrical performance the argument develops that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition, myth becomes a liberating spa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brill,
2015.
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| Colección: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 210. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction Metamorphoses of the Self on the Border between 'East' and 'West'; Chapter One Writing in English: A Performative Act in Contemporary Indian Fiction; Chapter Two Changes and Challenges in the Novel Form: From Myth to Performance to Nomadic Textuality; Chapter Three Intercultural Epic in Performance: Peter Brook and Girish Karnad; Chapter Four Reperformed Traditions: Indian Theatre and Its Contemporary Avatars.
- Chapter Five Repositioning Scheherazade: From Storytelling to Performance in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's ChildrenChapter Six Storying the Fatwa: From The Satanic Verses to Haroun and the Sea of Stories; Chapter Seven Migrant Identity Performance Politics in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses; Chapter Eight Writing the Unspoken: Exclusion and Arundhati Roy's Écriture Féminine in The God of Small Things; Chapter Nine Performances of Marginality in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.
- Chapter Ten Postmodern Scheherazades between Storytelling and the Novel Form: Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring RainChapter Eleven Performance, Performativity and Nomadism in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.