The Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul‚ which is 14 kilometres from Bombay. Lila‚ the eldest child among four siblings‚ is thirteen years old‚ yet she already has the maturity of an adult. Her brother Hari‚ twelve‚ is the only person with whom she can share her troubles. Their mother is ill and needs constant care and nursing. Nobody knows exactly what she suffers from but she grows weaker and weaker with each passing day. Their father‚ who has been out of work for months‚ is
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Review: Fasting‚ Feasting by Anita Desai The most recent novel of Indian born author Anita Desai‚ Fasting‚ Feasting (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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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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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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Clear Light of Day – chapter one At the beginning of the chapter one‚ the reader discovers the siblings of the family. There are Bim‚ Tara‚ Raja and Baba. At first‚ the links between these characters seem really unclear. Their relationship looks knotty and messy. The atmosphere is gloomy and dark. Firstly‚ even though it is very early in the novel‚ the reader can already see that the family is used as a symbol of Indian Muslim microcosm (the country get slip up to India and Pakistan as the family
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Chapter Summaries Children of the Sea: 1) Two narrators in which they do not say their names in the book are in love and write to each other. 2) The female narrator in the book is mad because his father opposes her love for the man. 3) She finds out that he father gave up all his possessions to protect her from the macoutes. 4) The female narrator’s family finds out that their neighbor was killed by the macoutes. 5) The male narrator who was a member of the youth federation fled
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Anita Desai (b.1937) – formerly Anita Mazumdar Indian novelist and short story writer‚ especially noted for her sensitive portrayal of the inner life of her female characters. Several of Desai’s novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels Desai has dealt with such themes as German anti-Semitism‚ the demise of traditions‚ and Western stereotypical views of India. "Even though his cigarette stank - it was a local one‚ wrapped in a tendu
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Hawks of the sea The Pirates of Barbary‚ Corsairs‚ Conquests‚ and Captivity in the 17th-century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood is an interesting book that details the ventures of the many Barbary Pirates. This book explains the effects of the often forgotten but highly important Barbary Pirates. Tinniswood explains the workings of the maritime cities‚ whose economies depended on the piracy that was engaged by the Anglo-Turkish pirates. He first discusses the famous raids and affects the pirates
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The Village by The Sea by Anita Desai. Avin Gunewardene. 3270. American National College. About the Author. ------------------------------------------------- Anita Desai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father. She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali‚ Urdu‚ Hindi and English at school and in the city streets. She has said that she grew up surrounded by Western literature
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The Communalization and Disintegration of Urdu in Anita Desai’s In Custody 1 Introduction T of Urdu in India is an extremely layered one which needs to be examined historically‚ politically and ideologically in order to grasp the various forces which have shaped its current perception as a sectarian language adopted by Indian Muslims‚ marking their separation from the national collectivity. In this article I wish to explore these themes through the lens of literature
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