Download Imagine Carnivalesque: A Duo of Psychoanalytical Essays on South Asian Literature and Gender Identity AudioBook Free
Ashok Rajamani, award-winning writer of the reach memoir The Day My Brain Exploded, profits with Imagine Carnivalesque, his explosive first publication of strong and insightful literary criticism. Uncover the unconscious in South Asian books through two psychoanalytical essays that deconstruct gender codes and sexuality within Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shyam Selvadurai's Crazy Boy, and the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata. From Rushdie's manic search for feminine rapaciousness to Selvadurai's proclamations of liberation through same-sex wish to the fiery transgendered battles in India's grandest poem, Imagine Carnivalesque vividly explores subcontinental writing and its libidinous secrets of subversion.
