“Plants have a will of their own”: the construction of botanical metaphors and symbols in the literary garden of (postcolonial) India
This article offers a preliminary investigation of figurative, metaphorical and linguistic aspects of the garden in Indian English fiction. After providing a short introduction to the symbolism of gardens in the colonial and postcolonial periods, and to the image of the garden in Anglophone Indian l...
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| Language: | English |
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/article/view/1876 |