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From: New Statesman[(review date 6 September 2004) In the following review of The Zigzag Way, Messud expresses disappointment with the novel's thin characterization, citing the country of Mexico as its most fully realized subject.] Anita...
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From: Genders[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Daiya uses Train to Pakistan to illustrate how male and female genders are turned into symbols for a nation in times of crisis.] If the humanities have a future as cultural...
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From: Imagining India[(essay date 1989) In the essay below, Cronin examines Desai's treatment of India and Indian life and culture in such works as The Village by the Sea, Fire on the Mountain, and Clear Light of Day.] `Quiet writing, like...
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From: South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh[(essay date 2010) In the following excerpts, Roy discusses Train to Pakistan in detail, exploring the key events and concluding that Singh ends his novel with an expression of “faith in essential humanity.”]...
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From: Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism[(essay date February 2002) In this essay, first presented as a paper in February 2002, Yaqin provides a history of Urdu in India, questioning the validity of Desai's nostalgic outlook on the language in her novel In...
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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[(essay date April-July 2006) In the following essay, Poon contends that Fasting, Feasting calls into question theorized versions of globalization that posit transnational connectedness. Through literal and metaphoric...
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From: Lambda Book Report[(essay date 1996) In the following interview, Selvadurai discusses the public reaction to his depiction of the historical political situation that plays such an important role in the characters’ lives in his novel Funny...
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From: Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering[(essay date 2002) In the essay below, Chanda discusses Voices in the City as one of the few examples of Indo-English literature to set the reality of contemporary Indian maternity against the classical Indian myth of...