The Politics of Language and the Poetics of Creolization in Anita Desai’s In Custody
This essay engages with how Desai’s novel decentres the conventional postcolonial debate on the role of language and religion in identity-construction. It investigates how Desai deploys the synergistic multivocal recombinations known as mélange or creolization, effectively borrowing from western lit...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This essay engages with how Desai’s novel decentres the conventional postcolonial debate on the role of language and religion in identity-construction. It investigates how Desai deploys the synergistic multivocal recombinations known as mélange or creolization, effectively borrowing from western literary and cultural conventions, mediating between the normative value-references of eastern and western traditions in general and Hindu and Muslim traditions in particular, ultimately connecting Indian fiction with international postmodern concerns. |
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