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    Anita Desai

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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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    III *ISSUE-32 RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION Among the post- independence Indo- English writers Anita Desai holds a prominent place because of the immense popularity she commands as a novelist of human predicament of anxiety‚ frustration and loneliness in the insensitive and inconsiderate contemporary world. This paper aims at tracing the theme of alienation in the novels of Anita Desai. Alienation refers to estrangement that occurs in the relation between an individual and that to which

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    In this novel‚ as in so many others by Anita Desai‚ the key themes of identity and language are explored and developed. This is vital considering the context in which Desai sets so many of her novels‚ which is post-Partition and the massive upheaval that occurred as Pakistan was created as a separate nation and many Muslims and Hindus had to relocate and an imaginary border was created in a nation. The focus on language is shown in Deven‚ who focuses on Hindi poetry because he has no choice but to

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    Anita Desai

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    org/ijel ISSN 2141-2626 ©2011 Academic Journals Review Anita Desai’s ‘in custody’: Unlocking the web of time and space Bhasha Shukla Sharma Department of Humanities‚ University Institute of Technology‚ Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya‚ Bhopal. (M.P)‚ India. E-mail: Bhasha.shukla@gmail.com. Tel: 9826090200. Accepted 6 August‚ 2011 This paper attempts to semiotically interpret the use of time and place as narrative device in Anita Desai’s ‘In Custody’. Space and time have aroused the curiosity

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    A conversation with Anita Desai‚ and some notes on her work [Statutory warning: long‚ bifurcated post – some thoughts on Anita Desai’s writing followed by a Q&A. Apologies in case there’s some overlapping between the two elements. I wrote it as a flowing piece - a profile-cum-interview - for Business Standard Weekend but since there isn’t a word-constraint here I prefer to spread it out and play with the format.] Long before the publication of Midnight’s Children brought alive new possibilities

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    Interview with Anita Desai Magda Costa interviewed Anita Desai in Barcelona‚ 30 Jan 2001. Desai was in Spain to launch the Spanish and Catalan translations of Fasting‚ Feasting. -How was it to grow up in a family like yours‚ with a German mother and a Bengali father‚ in India? -When you are a child you take for granted what your family is; you don’t question it. The fact is that my mother adapted so completely to the Indian way of life that nobody thought of her as a foreigner anymore. It’s true

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    Analysis Of Anita Desai

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    She is less concerned with the outer undertakings she had as with the inward climate. Anita considers external reality to be the slightest in examination with the inside clashes. One of her written work named Holler the Peacock in which Maya is the character who conceived of an upper white collar class Brahmin crew. Having become motherless

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    Anita Desai - Summary

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    Anita Desai: Biography Anita Desai (born 1937) has been touted by "British Writers’" A. Michael Matin as "one of the preeminent contemporary Indian novelists‚" even referred to by many as the Mother of the Indian psychological novel genre. Her meticulous depictions of modern Indian life‚ combined with an elevated level of linguistic skill that frequently enters the poetic realm‚ have secured her a place of honor in the pantheon of Indian authors. Early Life Anita Desai was born on June 24‚ 1937

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    Diaspora in Anita Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting 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

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    companions. Fate plays a pessimistic role in his life and in spite of having possessed good human qualities of sincerity‚ honesty and adjustment‚ he meets a tragic end. Since Arun has been a victim of nauseating care‚ he too believes in escapism to attain his lost identity. Emotionally starved‚ he disappears into the abyss of anonymity in America‚ the land of liberty. On comparing the Indian and American culture‚ he finds that if children in India are over-protected‚ in America they are left too

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