LEADER 00000cam a2200625Ma 4500 001 ocn904792152 003 OCoLC 005 20190705070249.3 006 m o d 007 cr |n||||||||| 008 150313s2015 xx ob 001 0 eng d 019 1066742166 020 1336099097|q(e-book) 020 9781336099098|q(e-book) 020 9789004292604|q(electronic book) 020 9004292608|q(electronic book) 020 |z9789004292598 020 |z9004292594 035 (OCoLC)904792152|z(OCoLC)1066742166 037 741195|bMIL 040 IDEBK|beng|epn|cIDEBK|dCDX|dE7B|dEBLCP|dYDXCP|dOCLCO |dOCLCF|dOCLCQ|dIDB|dUAB|dMOR|dOCLCQ|dMERUC|dOCLCA|dAU@ |dOCLCQ|dN$T|dLEAUB|dYDX|dOCLCQ 043 a-ii--- 049 RIDW 050 4 PR9492.515 072 7 LIT|x008020|2bisacsh 082 04 823|223 090 PR9492.515 100 1 Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n96049761 245 10 Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bBrill,|c2015. 300 1 online resource. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Costerus new series,|x0165-9618 ;|vvolume 210 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index. 505 0 Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction Metamorphoses of the Self on the Border between 'East' and 'West'; Chapter One Writing in English: A Performative Act in Contemporary Indian Fiction; Chapter Two Changes and Challenges in the Novel Form: From Myth to Performance to Nomadic Textuality; Chapter Three Intercultural Epic in Performance: Peter Brook and Girish Karnad; Chapter Four Reperformed Traditions: Indian Theatre and Its Contemporary Avatars. 505 8 Chapter Five Repositioning Scheherazade: From Storytelling to Performance in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's ChildrenChapter Six Storying the Fatwa: From The Satanic Verses to Haroun and the Sea of Stories; Chapter Seven Migrant Identity Performance Politics in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses; Chapter Eight Writing the Unspoken: Exclusion and Arundhati Roy's Écriture Féminine in The God of Small Things; Chapter Nine Performances of Marginality in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. 505 8 Chapter Ten Postmodern Scheherazades between Storytelling and the Novel Form: Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring RainChapter Eleven Performance, Performativity and Nomadism in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 520 Through a comparison with theatrical performance the argument develops that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 English literature|zIndia|xCriticism and interpretation. 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 776 08 |iPrint version:|aDraga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina. |tPerformance and performativity in contemporary Indian fiction in English.|dLeiden : Brill Rodopi, [2015] |z9789004292598|w(DLC) 2015295328|w(OCoLC)945571088 830 0 Costerus ;|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42008374 |vnew ser., v. 210.|x0165-9618 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=1940371|zOnline eBook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this eBook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20190709|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 7-5-19 5915 |lridw 994 92|bRID