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From:Feminist WritersThe term "feminism" occupies a peculiar position in many nations of the so-called "Third World." Its western origins make it suspect from a nationalist perspective, while its seemingly exclusive focus on women (which,...
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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: 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: International Fiction Review[(essay date 1990) Below, Phillips examines elements of Greek tragedy in Fire on the Mountain.] The Indian author Anita Desai creates in Fire on the Mountain (1977) a perfect tragedy in the Greek mode. Though fiction,...
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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: 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:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 2. )One of the most prominent Indian authors writing in English, Anita Desai is known primarily for her novels. Her short fiction, however, displays many of the same techniques, such as her distinctive and evocative use of...
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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: World Literature Today[(review date winter 2001) In the following review, Narayan prefers the stories set abroad in Diamond Dust to those set in India, objecting to the latter's discomfiting perspective on contemporary Indian society and...
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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: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Salgado analyzes the function of epiphany in two of Desai’s short stories, “Surface Textures” and “Studies in the Park.” According to Salgado, while Desai makes the quest for...
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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: 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: Indian Journal of American Studies[(essay date summer 1993) In the following essay, Parikh compares the treatment of female relationships in Toni Morrison's fiction with that in Desai's novels, emphasizing the alienation experienced by the characters in...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 2. )"Studies in the Park" by Anita Desai is a richly symbolic coming-of-age story. In it Suno, a young man preparing for exams at the academy, leaves behind his awkward adolescence and enters adulthood in the span of three...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date winter 2000) In the following review, Aldama outlines the plot of Fasting, Feasting, suggesting that the change of settings for the novel' s conclusion compromises the integrity of the narrative.] Anita...
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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: The Short Story[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, D’Souza argues that Moyna in “The Rooftop Dwellers” represents an alternative to what feminist critic Gayatri Spivak calls the “gendered subaltern,” that is, a woman who is...
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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: Narrative Inquiry[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Barley examines literal and metaphoric meanings of "home" in Desai's Fire on the Mountain and Raj Khamal Jha's The Blue Bedspread, asserting that the protagonists of both novels...