DIASPORIC HISTORY AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS IN ANITA DESAI’S BAUMGARTNER’S BOMBAY

DIASPORIC HISTORY AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS IN ANITA DESAI’S BAUMGARTNER’S BOMBAY

Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay adopts the perspective of a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and of a former cabaret performer to connect the histories of Germany and India. This paper examines how these characters – witnesses to a multiplicity of stories and receptacles of a variety of cultural...

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Main Author: Lucio De Capitani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Udine 2015-11-01
Series:Le Simplegadi
Online Access:http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/wp-content/uploads/2015/Simplegadi_14_2015_DeCapitani.pdf
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spelling doaj-2a67434f1bd34cd3b449b1d0b2840e862020-11-24T22:41:36ZengUniversity of UdineLe Simplegadi1824-52262015-11-01XIII14525810.17456/SIMPLE-7DIASPORIC HISTORY AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS IN ANITA DESAI’S BAUMGARTNER’S BOMBAYLucio De Capitani 0University of Venice Ca' FoscariAnita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay adopts the perspective of a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and of a former cabaret performer to connect the histories of Germany and India. This paper examines how these characters – witnesses to a multiplicity of stories and receptacles of a variety of cultural instances – engender a diasporic network that dismantles the solidity of official history and grants a meaning to the desolate experience of exile.http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/wp-content/uploads/2015/Simplegadi_14_2015_DeCapitani.pdf
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