Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru

Broschiertes Buch

Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9789004292598
• ISBN-10: 9004292594
• Artikelnr.: 70828190