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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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • METAMORPHOSES OF THE SELF ON THE BORDER BETWEEN ‘EAST’ AND ‘WEST’ / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • WRITING IN ENGLISH: A PERFORMATIVE ACT IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN FICTION / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • CHANGES AND CHALLENGES IN THE NOVEL FORM: FROM MYTH TO PERFORMANCE TO NOMADIC TEXTUALITY / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • INTERCULTURAL EPIC IN PERFORMANCE: PETER BROOK AND GIRISH KARNAD / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • REPERFORMED TRADITIONS: INDIAN THEATRE AND ITS CONTEMPORARY AVATARS / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • REPOSITIONING SCHEHERAZADE: FROM STORYTELLING TO PERFORMANCE IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • STORYING THE FATWA: FROM THE SATANIC VERSES TO HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • MIGRANT IDENTITY PERFORMANCE POLITICS IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S THE SATANIC VERSES / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • WRITING THE UNSPOKEN: EXCLUSION AND ARUNDHATI ROY’S ÉCRITURE FÉMININE IN THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • PERFORMANCES OF MARGINALITY IN ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • POSTMODERN SCHEHERAZADES BETWEEN STORYTELLING AND THE NOVEL FORM: VIKRAM CHANDRA’S RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • PERFORMANCE, PERFORMATIVITY AND NOMADISM IN VIKRAM CHANDRA’S RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • CONCLUSION / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
  • INDEX / Editors Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English.