Published: 2022-06-15

Different Sources of Inspiration in the Works of Ananda Devi

Anna Szkonter-Bochniak Logo ORCID

Abstract

In the article the author analyses various sources of inspiration noticeable in the works of Ananda Devi. Considering the writer’s background, her native island of Mauritius, a multi-ethnic multi-lingual and multi-cultural island, various cultural inspirations are noticeable in her works. The author of this article focuses on the novelist’s prose and analyses the cultural references rooted in Indian, European, African and Creole cultures. The aim of this analysis is also to describe the intertextual relations that exist between some of Ananda Devi’s texts and the works of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Arthur Rimbaud or Malcolm de Chazal, T. S. Eliot, Toni Morrison and J. M. Coetzee. In the analysis, the author draws on the research of Homi Bhabha and Gérard Genette.

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Szkonter-Bochniak, A. (2022). Different Sources of Inspiration in the Works of Ananda Devi. Romanica Silesiana, 21(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2022.21.02

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2022)
Published: 2022-10-11


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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