Neoliberal Disgust in Aravind Adiga's: The White Tiger.
How does scatology function in postcolonial fiction today? And what might that idiom tell us about neoliberalism as a cynical political rationality sweeping the developing world? Aravind Adiga's exemplary 2008 satire on globalizing India, The White Tiger , parodies how neoliberalism normalizes misan...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 169 - 189 |
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