Marta Dvorak, The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai’s In Custody
Marta Dvorak’s The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai’s In Custody gives a powerful, original reading of Anita Desai’s novel. Dvorak’s superb intertextual and metatextual investigation is all the more convincing for being couched in clear, well-written sentences, endowed with a momentum of their own....
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Marta Dvorak’s The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai’s In Custody gives a powerful, original reading of Anita Desai’s novel. Dvorak’s superb intertextual and metatextual investigation is all the more convincing for being couched in clear, well-written sentences, endowed with a momentum of their own. Although the reader senses that Dvorak is well-versed in post-colonial culture and criticism, she strays from expected discourse, merely using Homi Bhabha, for instance, as a tutelary guide for a ... |
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