Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English

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).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Metamorphoses of the Self on the Border between ‘East’ and ‘West’Chapter ONE. Writing in English: A Performative Act in Contemporary Indian FictionChapter TWO. Changes and Challenges in the Novel Form: From Myth to Performance to Nomadic TextualityChapter THREE. Intercultural Epic in Performance: Peter Brook and Girish KarnadChapter FOUR. Reperformed Traditions: Indian Theatre and Its Contemporary AvatarsChapter 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 StoriesChapter SEVEN. Migrant Identity Performance Politics in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic VersesChapter EIGHT. Writing the Unspoken: Exclusion and Arundhati Roy’s Écriture Féminine in The God of Small ThingsChapter NINE. Performances of Marginality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small ThingsChapter 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 RainConclusionBibliographyIndex