{"id":601,"date":"2020-05-19T21:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?p=601"},"modified":"2020-05-19T22:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:05:51","slug":"performance-and-performativity-in-contemporary-indian-fiction-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/performance-and-performativity-in-contemporary-indian-fiction-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/31669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">This book starts with a consideration of a 1997 issue of the <em>New Yorker<\/em> 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 Chandra). Such fiction, which constructs identity through performative acts, is built around a nomadic understanding of the self and implies an evolution of narrative language towards performativity whereby the text itself becomes nomadic. A comparison with theatrical performance (Peter Brook\u2019s <em>Mahabharata<\/em> and Girish Karnad\u2019s \u2018theatre of roots\u2019) serves to support the argument 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 within a cyclical pattern of estrangement from and return to the motherland and\/or its traditions, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Chandra). Such fiction, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/performance-and-performativity-in-contemporary-indian-fiction-in-english\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continu\u0103 lectura<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201ePerformance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}