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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Whereas earlier Indian novelists were concerned with nationalist politics, protest and cultural assertion, Anita Desai is interested in the various changes which have affected lives since independence. Although her...
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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: Indian English Novelists: An Anthology of Critical Essays[(essay date 1982) In the following overview of Desai's works, Jain focuses on what he considers her "primary preoccupation": "The absurdity of human life, with the existential search for meaning in it and the inability...
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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:Rocky Mountain Review (Vol. 66) Peer-ReviewedAnita Desai's 1971 novel Bye-Bye Blackbird concerns an episode in the life of two friends from India living in the London of the 1960s. The two men are first-generation immigrants and the work depict their (dis)position...