Generic Displacement: Difference and Repetition in Anita Desai’s Indian Campus Novel
This paper sets out to analyse In Custody in relation to the generic framework of the campus novel. Desai’s novel, in agreement with the laws of the genre, deals with the university as “a metaphor for the times” while treating academics according to the principle of desacralisation showing the ignob...
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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 sets out to analyse In Custody in relation to the generic framework of the campus novel. Desai’s novel, in agreement with the laws of the genre, deals with the university as “a metaphor for the times” while treating academics according to the principle of desacralisation showing the ignoble in the noble. But In Custody is not built as a comic entertainment and its generic difference lies in its determination to show the transcendence of mediocrity in a prose which celebrates the poetry of the banal. |
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