Anita Desai’s Bestiary, or How In Custody Responds to The Panchatantra
This article examines intertextuality between In Custody and The Panchatantra in terms of allusion, metatext and narrative genre. It then turns to animal tropes that are used for characterization and identification, and as cultural markers. It concludes on the effects of Desai’s re-working of this g...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | This article examines intertextuality between In Custody and The Panchatantra in terms of allusion, metatext and narrative genre. It then turns to animal tropes that are used for characterization and identification, and as cultural markers. It concludes on the effects of Desai’s re-working of this great Indian tradition, which is, paradoxically, to enhance realism without depoeticizing reality. |
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