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...

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Publicado en:Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 51 - 67
Autor principal: Banerjee, Agnibha
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Florida, Board of Trustees Spring2025
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