Considering the alternative: Bakhtin’s carnivalesque and convergence of worlds of animals and humans in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Considering the alternative: Bakhtin’s carnivalesque and convergence of worlds of animals and humans in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi recontextualises the traditional castaway narrative’s rationalist and reductivist worldview by incorporating carnivalised writing, or the carnivalesque, to examine alternative or ‘non-human’ ways of encountering the world. It is this subversive and liberating approach toward...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Susan Marais
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 2018-06-01
Series:Literator
Subjects:
Animal
Bakhtin
Boundaries
Carnivalesque
Grotesque Realism
Human
Hybridity
Imagination
Instinctual
Liminality
Rational vs. irrational
Post-postmodernism
post-secularism
Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1460

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