Open AccessDIALOGIC ADIGA: THE NEOLIBERAL GOSPEL AND ITS CONTEXTS IN THE WHITE TIGER
Author(s) -
Florian Andrei VLAD
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
synergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2668-0513
pISSN - 1841-7191
DOI - 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.04
Subject(s) - dialogic , conversation , neoliberalism (international relations) , tiger , white (mutation) , the imaginary , narrative , sociology , globalization , aesthetics , media studies , gender studies , literature , art , political science , social science , psychology , psychoanalysis , law , communication , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , computer security , gene
Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, bothaccommodates and provokes a variety of voices and discourses, evoking and dealing withIndia’s past, present, and future, thus highlighting its author’s dialogic vision. Althoughpostcolonial and posthumanist approaches are worth exploring at length in this verychallenging text, the current starts from the novel’s initial “conversation” with acontroversial non-fiction book, Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat, and the theory ofthe ten flatteners that reshape globalization, with Bangalore as the then (2006) neoliberalhub of the world. Using the patterns of the frame narrative of the Arabian Nights and of theEuropean epistolary novel, the text under investigation dramatizes and transfigures thedark side of neoliberalism by means of the imaginary conversation between a murdererturned successful entrepreneur and the leader of the world’s most prominent risingeconomic tiger.