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    in Anita Desai’s FastingFeasting Abstract: Several postcolonial and diasporic writers have articulated the complex relationship of food to nation‚ culture and diaspora‚ while many others have taken into account the ways in which gender‚ sex‚ class and race gets produced and articulated through culinary negotiations. The culinary becomes a site of struggle for both the nation-state and its subjects who are to be contained within structures of heterosexual patriarchy. Anita Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting

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    Part 1‚ Chapters 1 and 2 Summary Anita Desai’s novel of intricate family relations plays out in two countries‚ India and the United States. The core characters comprise a family living in a small town in India‚ where provincial customs and attitudes dictate the futures of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible. The story contrasts the life of the main character‚ Uma‚ the family’s older daughter‚ with Arun‚ the boy and baby of the family. Uma spends

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    Review: FastingFeasting by Anita Desai The most recent novel of Indian born author Anita DesaiFastingFeasting (1999) tells the story of two middle-class families and the allegorical struggles of the individual members to find individual identity and happiness. This meticulously constructed prose gravitates towards the position of women in the family unit and explores socially ordered gender imbalance in domestic life. Featuring a traditional Indian family in provincial town India and a typical

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    Anita Desai’s novel of intricate family relations plays out in two countries‚ India and the United States. The core characters comprise a family living in a small town in India‚ where provincial customs and attitudes dictate the future of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible. The story contrasts the life of the main character‚ Uma‚ the family’s older daughter‚ with Arun‚ the boy and baby of the family. Uma spends her life in subservience to her

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    Book Report Fasting and Feasting The book “Fasting and Feasting” revolves around two families‚ one that lives in India the other in America. The author Anita Desai contrasts the two families. The book focuses on the social role of the woman in the household and the Indian traditions that keep them there. The main character of the book is an Indian woman that is not pretty‚ smart‚ or confident. The story follows her throughout her life and chronicles the struggles she has‚ her failures and

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    INGESTION‚ DIGESTION AND REVULSION OF FOOD AND CULTURE IN ANITA DESAI’S FASTINGFEASTING T. RAVICHANDRAN* ABSTRACT This article attempts a cultural study offood and eating habits in Anita Desai’s Booker Prize short-listed novel‚ FastingFeasting. It shows how the ingestion offood affects acculturation process both in India and America in a multicultural context. Considering Foucault’s view that discourse is involved in the exertion of power‚ some of the discourses from the novel are scrutinised

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    FastingFeasting is a wonderful novel of two parts‚ running from the heart of a close-knit Indian household‚ with its restrictions and prejudices‚ its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food‚ to the cool centre of an American family. Uma‚ the plain spinster daughter of the Indian family‚ is trapped at home‚ smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions‚ unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna‚ who brings off a good marriage‚ and brother Arun‚ the disappointing son and heir who

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    Children’s Fiction Award. Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive portrayal of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of Anita Desai’s novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels‚ Anita Desai wrote on varied themes such as German anti-Semitism‚ the demise of traditions‚ and Western stereotypical views of India. Anita Desai was born as Anita Mazumdar on June 24‚ 1937 in

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    In FastingFeasting by Anita Desai‚ the characters‚ Uma‚ Aruna‚ Anamika‚ Arun‚ Melanie and Rod suffer from entrapment as an inescapable fact in their lives in many senses. On the one hand‚ Uma is suppressed‚ repressed and imprisoned‚ she is a reluctant victim of entrapment at home‚” She walks off to her room and shuts the door behind her. She knows that when she shuts the door mama and Papa immediately become suspicious”. Uma is not able to have some privacy even at her own home‚ her parents

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    Essay "FastingFeasting" is a novel written by Anita Desai. This book is divided in two parts‚ one part from an India family point of view‚ and the other from an American family perspective. The title of this novel is greatly interesting because it is in two parts too. Fasting which means abstaining from all food‚ and feasting which means to eat rich and abundant meal. After reading the book‚ we can immediately say that "Fasting" corresponds to Uma’s point of view (India) and "Feasting" is from

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