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Author:   Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   210
Weight:   0.469kg
ISBN:  

9789004292598

ISBN 10:   9004292594
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   05 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Chapter FIVE. Repositioning Scheherazade: From Storytelling to Performance in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Chapter 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 Ecriture Feminine in The God of Small Things Chapter NINE. Performances of Marginality in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Chapter TEN. Postmodern Scheherazades between Storytelling and the Novel Form: Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain Chapter ELEVEN. Performance, Performativity and Nomadism in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She has published articles in Romanian and international journals and books such as: Women’s Voices in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (2 vols., co-edited; Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2005 and 2006); Identity Performance in Contemporary Non-WASP American Fiction (Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2008); Postcolonialism/Postcommunism: Intersections and Overlaps (co-edited; Bucharest: The University of Bucharest Press, 2011); Between History and Personal Narrative: East European Women’s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium (co-edited; Berlin and Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2012).

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