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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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_8939 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.8939 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.8939 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/8939 2022-04-10T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dt2a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Anita Desai’s Bestiary, or How In Custody Responds to The Panchatantra Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Lorre, Christine 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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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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