Anita Desai’s In Custody and the English Legacy
This paper shows how Desai’s novel illustrates the legacy left by the British Empire in an ambivalent way: it pays tribute to English literature, and at the same time uses the (former) colonizer’s language to emphasize the changes and disruption the subcontinent has inherited from British presence a...
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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 shows how Desai’s novel illustrates the legacy left by the British Empire in an ambivalent way: it pays tribute to English literature, and at the same time uses the (former) colonizer’s language to emphasize the changes and disruption the subcontinent has inherited from British presence and departure. Through the central protagonist the novel stages a difficult positioning in a post-Independence and post-Partition India faced with new forms of hegemony. |
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