Performance and performativity in contemporary Indian fiction in English / / by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru.

This book starts with a consideration of a 1997 issue of the New Yorker that celebrated fifty years of Indian independence, and goes on to explore the development of a pattern of performance and performativity in contemporary Indian fiction in English (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Vikram Chandr...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Costerus New Series 210.
Physical Description:1 online resource (301 pages).
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