Weaving Cross-cultural Narratives

Weaving Cross-cultural Narratives: Hybrid Forms and Historico-political Discourse of the Anglophone Indian Novel As the anglophone Indian novel exists in the in-between space between transnational and local cultures, it has repeatedly staged the encounter between a variety of cultural dimensions...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:eea3b98463b94816bb489f45fb24258e2021-11-27T12:53:25ZWeaving Cross-cultural Narratives10.12797/CIS.17.2015.17.121732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/eea3b98463b94816bb489f45fb24258e2021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1682https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 Weaving Cross-cultural Narratives: Hybrid Forms and Historico-political Discourse of the Anglophone Indian Novel As the anglophone Indian novel exists in the in-between space between transnational and local cultures, it has repeatedly staged the encounter between a variety of cultural dimensions while remaining acutely aware of the way they interact with historical and political discourse. This essay examines four novels—Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Anita Desai’s In Custody and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide—that have conceived their narratives as a site of encounter between cultures in response to articulations of Indian national identity. The essay stresses the authors’ shared concerns but also the different formal solutions and ideological positions they adopt. Rao—a pre-Partition author—deals with otherness within a nationalist paradigm. Rushdie, Desai and Ghosh, on the other hand, tackle otherness in different modes that are dependent on their writing after Partition and in a climate of growing violence and fundamentalism. Lucio De Capitani Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticleanglophone Indian novelcross-cultural encounterhistorico-political discoursenational identityRaja RaoSalman RushdieIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 17 (2021)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
topic anglophone Indian novel
cross-cultural encounter
historico-political discourse
national identity
Raja Rao
Salman Rushdie
Indo-Iranian languages and literature
PK1-9601
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
spellingShingle anglophone Indian novel
cross-cultural encounter
historico-political discourse
national identity
Raja Rao
Salman Rushdie
Indo-Iranian languages and literature
PK1-9601
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
Lucio De Capitani
Weaving Cross-cultural Narratives
description Weaving Cross-cultural Narratives: Hybrid Forms and Historico-political Discourse of the Anglophone Indian Novel As the anglophone Indian novel exists in the in-between space between transnational and local cultures, it has repeatedly staged the encounter between a variety of cultural dimensions while remaining acutely aware of the way they interact with historical and political discourse. This essay examines four novels—Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Anita Desai’s In Custody and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide—that have conceived their narratives as a site of encounter between cultures in response to articulations of Indian national identity. The essay stresses the authors’ shared concerns but also the different formal solutions and ideological positions they adopt. Rao—a pre-Partition author—deals with otherness within a nationalist paradigm. Rushdie, Desai and Ghosh, on the other hand, tackle otherness in different modes that are dependent on their writing after Partition and in a climate of growing violence and fundamentalism.
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