Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W140131337> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 73 of
73
with 100 items per page.
- W140131337 abstract "In Orientalism, Edward Said identified how the Westerner “spoke for” and represented the silent Orient. Today with the burgeoning call-center business with India, it seems that the West now wants the Orient to speak for it. But is the voice that Western business requires in India a truly Indian voice? Or is it a manipulation which is a new form of the silencing of the Indian voice? This dissertation identifies how several Postcolonial Indian writers challenge the silence of Orientalism and the power issues of the West through various “speaking voices” of narratives representative of Indian life. Using Julie Kristeva’s abjection theory as a lens, this dissertation reveals Arundhati Roy as “speaking abjection” in The God of Small Things. Even Roy’s novelistic setting suffers abjection through neocolonialism. Salman Rushdie’s narrative method of magic realism allows “speaking trauma” as his character Saleem in Midnight’s Children suffers the traumas of Partition and Emergency as an allegorical representation of India. Using magic realism Saleem is able to speak the unspeakable. Other Indian voices, Bapsi Sidhwa, Khushwant Singh, and Rohinton Mistry “speak history” as their novels carry the weight of conveying an often-absent official history of Partition and the Emergency, history verified by Partition surviror interviews. In Such a Long Journey , Mistry uses an anthrozoological theme in portraying issues of power over innocence. Recognizing the choices and negotiations of immigrant life through the coining of the word (dis)assimilation , Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings are analyzed in terms of a “speaking voice” of (dis)assimilation for Indian immigrants in the United States, while Zadie Smith’s White Teeth “speaks (dis)assimilation” as a voice of multiple ethnicites negotiating immigrant life in the United Kingdom. Together these various “speaking voices” show the power of Indian writers in challenging the silence of Orientalism through narrative." @default.
- W140131337 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W140131337 creator A5040259002 @default.
- W140131337 date "2012-01-01" @default.
- W140131337 modified "2023-09-27" @default.
- W140131337 title "Speaking Voices in Postcolonial Indian Novels from Orientalism to Outsourcing" @default.
- W140131337 cites W1485995441 @default.
- W140131337 cites W1572972025 @default.
- W140131337 cites W1573015115 @default.
- W140131337 cites W1585092151 @default.
- W140131337 cites W1594477585 @default.
- W140131337 cites W1967541354 @default.
- W140131337 cites W2126899632 @default.
- W140131337 cites W2162611599 @default.
- W140131337 cites W2796175043 @default.
- W140131337 cites W2966447841 @default.
- W140131337 cites W3113168687 @default.
- W140131337 cites W409126144 @default.
- W140131337 cites W583627769 @default.
- W140131337 hasPublicationYear "2012" @default.
- W140131337 type Work @default.
- W140131337 sameAs 140131337 @default.
- W140131337 citedByCount "1" @default.
- W140131337 countsByYear W1401313372013 @default.
- W140131337 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W140131337 hasAuthorship W140131337A5040259002 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C107038049 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C107993555 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C190529437 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C199033989 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C204342414 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C27206212 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C2777704519 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C2778443833 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C2781115785 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C29595303 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C510816226 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C52119013 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C543847140 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C62520636 @default.
- W140131337 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C107038049 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C107993555 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C121332964 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C124952713 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C138885662 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C142362112 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C144024400 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C190529437 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C199033989 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C204342414 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C27206212 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C2777704519 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C2778443833 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C2781115785 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C29595303 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C510816226 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C52119013 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C543847140 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C62520636 @default.
- W140131337 hasConceptScore W140131337C95457728 @default.
- W140131337 hasLocation W1401313371 @default.
- W140131337 hasOpenAccess W140131337 @default.
- W140131337 hasPrimaryLocation W1401313371 @default.
- W140131337 isParatext "false" @default.
- W140131337 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W140131337 magId "140131337" @default.
- W140131337 workType "article" @default.