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10 avril 2022
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Catherine Lanone, « Marta Dvorak, The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai’s In Custody », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.8972
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Marta Dvorak’s The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai’s In Custody gives a powerful, original reading of Anita Desai’s novel. Dvorak’s superb intertextual and metatextual investigation is all the more convincing for being couched in clear, well-written sentences, endowed with a momentum of their own. Although the reader senses that Dvorak is well-versed in post-colonial culture and criticism, she strays from expected discourse, merely using Homi Bhabha, for instance, as a tutelary guide for a c...