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From: ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature[(essay date July 1997) In the following essay, da Silva focuses on the use of an Indian setting in Baumgartner's Bombay to represent the protagonist's existential crisis, contending that colonial appropriation of Indian...
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From: World Literature Written in English[(essay date Spring 1990) In the essay below, Newman examines "the relation between discourse and history" in Baumgartner's Bombay .] Anita Desai has always sidestepped any recognition of language as a social fact,...
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From: Linked Histories: Postcolonial Studies in a Globalized World[(essay date 2005) In the following essay on stereotypes and cultural identification in Indian literature, Fludernik seeks to expand upon the colonizer/colonized binary in postcolonial discourse. The critic examines the...
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From: Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Kanaganayakam surveys the novels of Anita Desai and argues that her style should be considered "counterrealism" since her metaphoric tendency achieves "a heightened...
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From: Critical Survey[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Brush examines Desai's articulation of the largely neglected European emigrant to India in Baumgartner's Bombay, emphasizing the multiple marginalization of the protagonist's...
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From: Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Taneja surveys the work of several contemporary Indian writers, theorizing that modern Indian fiction is characterized by themes and imagery that tend to break away from...
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From: The Global Literary Field[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Guttman considers writing, marketing, and reading strategies pertaining to postcolonial literature with Jewish themes, using Baumgartner's Bombay as an illustrative example.]...
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From: Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Kanaganayakam surveys Desai's novels, describing the author's technique as one that commingles the real and the symbolic.] Anita Desai's novel Baumgartner's Bombay concludes...
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From: ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature[(essay date April 1997) In the following essay, Smith contrasts the experiences of the imprisoned protagonist of Baumgartner's Bombay with the similar autobiographical account of Heinrich Harrar in Seven Years in Tibet,...
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From: (In)Fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits: (In)fusionising a Few Indian English Novels[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Parekh maintains that Baumgartner's Bombay is a unique contribution to literary theories of alterity.] Postcolonial narratives in general have shifted the focus from analysis...
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From:Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAnita Desai's novel Baumgartners Bombay (1988) makes evident its alliance with the determinist view of history according to which history repeats itself without allowing human agency to escape the occurrence of events....
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPrologue: Cities of Invention and Intervention When one thinks of politicized literary texts of the end of the last millennium, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities does not immediately come to mind. However...