the art of carnivalization in "the white tiger"
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The Art of Carnivalization in “The White Tiger”
Presented by Riddhi Jani
Roll no: 23
Paper 13, The New Literature
Semester: 4rth
Year: 2014-’15
Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardy Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
What is ‘Carnivalization’ ?• Mikhail Bakhtin- the term ‘Carnivalesque’.
• Subverts the dominant style of writing through humor.
• “Feast of Fools” “Feast of Circumcision”.
• Burlesqued sacred ceremonies.
• “The natural lout beneath the cassock”.
• Similarity with Manippean Satire.
Familiar and free interaction
between peopleEccentric behaviour
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Sacrilegious
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catagories
• Poignant situation of our country is shown in subverted way.
• Resistance, subversion and role-reversal.
• Balram’s resistance toward his granny and also his masters.
• Subversion of religion:
“Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion.”
• Role reversal:
“I stopped the car, and then moved to my left, and he moved to his right, and our bodies passed each other (…) and then he became driver and I became passenger.”
• At the end of the novel we see Balram as master.
• He is the real “LOUT” in the veneer of “CASSOCK”.
• The position is also subverted with the change of the situation.
“The Stork himself came out to see Vijay, and bowed down before him, a landlord bowing before a pigherd's son! The marvels of democracy!”
• Popular becomes prime and fools and wise are replaced with each other.
“On her birthday, for instance, he had me dress up as a maharaja, with a red turban and dark cooling glasses, and serve them their food in this costume.”
• Alternate identity.
“I found the fellow selling T-shirts. "No," I kept saying to each shirt he showed me—until I found one that was all white, with a small word in English in the center. Then I went looking for the man selling black shoes.”
• Dialogism is an important part of Carnivalesquetechnique.
• The novel is a conversation of narrator with an non-present listener.
• It seems like a dramatic monologue in humorous way.
• Profanity can be seen here as a part of carnivalization.
• God’s mightiness is challenged here in satirical way.
“God says: I am powerful. I am huge. Become my servant again. Devil says: Ha!”
• So, in this way carnivalization proceeds in this novel.
Work Sitation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivalesque
• (Zacharia)
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