the framework of an Indian stereotypical woman. There are other traits in Maya’s character which transcends the idea of “femininity” inseparable from males. She is in search of a new vista for a woman’s world- a space where she is at par with man. Desai writes “for woman‚ about woman by woman” - a genre where woman is not depicted in two versions- one in the temporal consciousness where she is “weak‚ meek and submissive”‚ ideally ABLA dependent on man related to her as her father or husband or son
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Major Works of Anita Desai‚ the Indian Novelist Most of Desai’s works engage the complexities of modern Indian culture from a feminine perspective while highlighting the female Indian predicament of maintaining self-identity as an individual woman. Cry‚ the Peacock‚ Desai’s first novel‚ chronicles the morbid dread‚ descent into madness‚ and suicide of Maya‚ a young Delhi housewife who is trapped in a loveless‚ arranged marriage to the much older Gautama‚ a misogynistic lawyer. The novel foreshadows
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Themes DISAPPOINTMENT “Victor hadn’t much faith in his mother’s promises. They had a way of getting postponed or cancelled on account of some small accidental lapse on his part.”We can see from this line that Mrs. Fernandez has let Victor down before and though her promise is as simple as giving him a pineapple cake‚ she cannot do so. REPUTATION Mrs. Fernandez has shown from the beginning that she is embarrassed by her son. “… Mrs Fernandez sighed to think how much easier it would have been
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entitled In Custody by Anita Desai. Writing in the early s‚ Aijaz Ahmad was of the opinion that the teaching of English literature has created a body of English-speaking Indians who represent “the only” overarching national community with a common language‚ able to imagine themselves across the disparate nation as a “national literary intelligentsia” with “a shared body of knowledge‚ shared presumptions and a shared knowledge of mutual exchange” (‚ ).2 Arguably both Desai and Ahmad belong to this
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also the fact that Bim is taking the mum figure‚ nursing her brothers and sisters‚ taking care of the house‚ keeping the garden alive and so on. However‚ she’s also destroying childhood memories (as the rose) to refresh everybody’s purpose. Perhaps Desai wants to remind the reader that they are grown adults‚ they have to let their infancy (and everything attached to it) behind them to finally move on. Perhaps the writer is trying to give a message to the reader. Finally‚ what if she was giving the
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Rushdie‚ Vikram Seth‚ Amitabh Ghosh and Anita Desai started popping upon the international literary map. The new breed of authors and writers who emerged in post reform era carried the initiative forward. These writers have created a niche for themselves among the readers across the globe and have given signal loud and clear that they are here to stay. The list includes the likes of Pankaj Misra‚ William Dalrymple‚ Chetan Bhagat‚ Anurag Mathur‚ Kiran Desai‚ Kamla Das‚ Hari Kunzuru‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and
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Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul‚ another winner‚ is of Indian origin‚ but was not born in India.) He has written many short stories‚ essays‚ and published 3 books so far; namely‚ The White Tiger‚ Between the Assassinations‚ and Last Man in Tower. Be it essays or novels‚ the ‘Indian’ setting
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M.PHIL DISSERTATION TOPIC: COMPLEXITIES OF MODERN INDIAN CULTURE FROM A FEMININE PERSPECTIVE A STUDY FROM THE NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI: FASTING‚ FEASTING THE ARTIST OF DISAPPEARANCE Introduction to Indian Literature: Indian Writings in English “Under English rule in India”‚ writes Mr. Arthur Mayhew‚ “the impact of two civilizations may have produced unrest. But it has also sustained and stimulated life.” It is an extraordinary story of endurance‚ assimilation and integral transformation
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COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia
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