The Paradox of Representation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People: “Just Words Written on a Page”.
This paper performs a close reading of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People to demonstrate how South Asian literary texts are entangled with unavoidable questions of representation, fetishization, and commodification. Bringing Althusser’s conception of non-vision in dialogue with Spivak’s theorizatio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 51 - 67 |
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University of Florida, Board of Trustees
Spring2025
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| Sumario: | This paper performs a close reading of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People to demonstrate how South Asian literary texts are entangled with unavoidable questions of representation, fetishization, and commodification. Bringing Althusser’s conception of non-vision in dialogue with Spivak’s theorization of the subaltern, I argue that Sinha’s novel performs a trenchant meta-commentary on the politics of narrativizing industrial disasters in the Global South. |
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