Anita Desai’s Fiction:
A Study through Different Perspectives
ISBN: 978-81-7646-789-6
B. R. Publishing Corporation
4222/1, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi 110 002. India
4222/1, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi 110 002. India
Anita Desai’s Fiction: A Study through Different Perspectives is a substantial attempt in the arena of Indian
Writings in English. The present volume brings to limelight the different perspectives of thematic
stands like existentialism, isolation, loneliness, human relationships,
East-West parallel, identity-crises, psychoanalytical realism and feminine
sensibility figuring in Anita Desai’s works.
This book heralds a fresh wave in
subjective criticism in Desai’s novels. The critical essays have been carefully
chosen so that the readers may be enabled to comprehend and eventually lend in
a new line of thought in the entire approach. The book will be instrumental to
the minds that wish to explore the fictional world of Indian women novelists
writing in English. It is not an exaggeration to state that the book will be of
maximum assistance to readers with a keen interest in this domain as it
presents an in-depth study of different perspectives of Anita Desai’s fictional
works right from her first novel Cry, the
Peacock to recent one The Zig Zag Way.
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ISBN 978-81-7646-788-9
B. R. Publishing Corporation
4222/1, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi 110 002. India
Anita Desai’s Fiction: Themes and
Techniques presents a systematic and a methodical study of
Anita Desai’s works. This book is an amalgamation of ideas, submissions,
deliberations and elucidations on the themes, motifs and symbols in her works.
Apart from this, the volume is also an assortment of the various techniques
employed by Desai and validating its handling in order to convey the core of
the concerned works. The research papers featuring in this volume corroborate
that Anita Desai’s interests rest in discovering the innermost recesses of the
human mind. The entrapment that the characters are subjected to dominates her
works. The scholarly essays expound this predicament.
The critical essays have been circumspectly
chosen and are crucial in the understanding the fiction of Anita Desai. As an
outstanding woman novelist, she has touched upon profound issues. The book will
be instrumental to all those who wish to explore the fictional world depicted
by her. This book would certainly be hailed not only by scholars but also by
readers with astute interest in this sphere as it presents an in-depth study of
themes and techniques of Anita Desai’s almost all fictional works right from
her first novel Cry, the Peacock to
recent one The
Zig Zag Way.
