The White Tiger: The Beggar’s Booker
This paper deals with the changing dynamics of postcolonial literature by focussing on the 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. I argue that when placed in the context of Indian postcolonial fiction in English, Adiga’s novel can be seen on the surface as representin...
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Taal: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | This paper deals with the changing dynamics of postcolonial literature by focussing on the 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. I argue that when placed in the context of Indian postcolonial fiction in English, Adiga’s novel can be seen on the surface as representing significant ruptures with existing paradigms of postcolonial literature. Further probing, however, reveals underlying continuities with the Indian postcolonial novel, in terms of thematic preoccupations as well as recurrent tropes. Studying these convergences and divergences will thus enable us to appreciate the reappraisals of postcolonial themes in a neocolonial context. |
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