Appendix I Summary of the Novel Fasting, Feasting
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East West Encounter in Anita Desai's Novels
INFOKARA RESEARCH ISSN NO: 1021-9056 East West Encounter in Anita Desai’s Novels Prakash Eknath Navgire Sir Vithaldas Thackersey College of Home Science (Autonomous) SNDT Women’s University Juhu Campus, Santacruz (w), Mumbai. [email protected] Abstract: Anita Desai is the famous writer in the Indian writing in the English. She handles the feminist issue, identity crisis and postcolonial issues in her fictions. The postcolonialism is mostly based on the east west encounters. The natives due to the education or job migrates in the foreign country and faces the trauma of identity. The connection between east and west begins with migration. The east west encounters primly focus on the culture, tradition, politics and the social changes in the life of the people. The current research paper focuses on the issue of east west encounters in the Anita Desai’s most famous three work of arts. Anita Desai manages the issue of east west encounters very positively in the fiction. The prime concern of her in the fiction about the love for own nation and the feeling of nationality is always in the unconscious mind of migrants. Keywords: - Anita Desai, east west encounter, postcolonialism, postmodernism Anita Desai is the most eminent name in the Indian writing in English. She is famous in the world for her feminist views in the literature. She is born in the city of Mussoorie in 1937. Her life is the best example of the east west encounter where her father is Bengali Businessman and mother is a German citizen. Anita Desai is before the marriage called Anita Muzumdar and her father is D. -
Bibliography
BIBLIOGRApHY PRIMARY SOURCEs ANITA DEsAI FICTION BY ANITA DEsAI (IN ORdER Of FIRsT PUBLICATION) Cry, the Peacock (New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, 1980). First published London: Peter Owen, 1963. Voices in the City (New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, 1995). First published London: Peter Owen, 1965. Bye-Bye- Blackbird (Delhi: Vision Books, 1985). First published Delhi: Hind, 1971. The Peacock Garden (London: Heinemann, 1979). First Published Bombay: India Book House, 1974. Where Shall We Go This Summer? (Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1975). Fire on the Mountain (London: Heinemann, 1977). Games at Twilight (London: Heinemann, 1978). Clear Light of Day (London: Vintage, 2001). First published London: Heinemann, 1980. The Village by the Sea (London: Heinemann, 1982). In Custody (London: Vintage, 1999). First published London: Heinemann, 1984. Baumgartner’s Bombay (London: Chatto and Windus, 1988). © The Author(s) 2018 277 P. Vlitos, Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96442-3 278 BIBLIOGRAPHY ‘Games at Twilight’, in The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947–1997, ed. Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West (London: Vintage, 1997), pp.121–9. First pub- lished in Games at Twilight (London: Heinemann, 1978), pp.1–10. Scholar and Gypsy (London: Phoenix, 1996). Journey to Ithaca (London: Vintage, 2001). First published London: Heinemann, 1995. Fasting, Feasting (London: Chatto & Windus, 1999). Diamond Dust and Other Stories (London: Vintage, 2001). The Zigzag Way (London: Chatto and Windus, 2004). The Artist of Disappearance (London: Chatto and Windus, 2011). SELECTEd NON-FICTION BY ANITA DEsAI ‘A Coat of Many Colors’, in South Asian English: Structure, Use and Users, ed. -
An Overview of Anita Desai's Novels
Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL) A Peer Reviewed (Refereed) International Journal Vol.8.Issue 1. 2020 Impact Factor 6.8992 (ICI) http://www.rjelal.com; (January-March) Email:[email protected] ISSN:2395-2636 (P); 2321-3108(O) REVIEW ARTICLE AN OVERVIEW OF ANITA DESAI’S NOVELS Dr. BIPIN BIHARI DASH Assistant Professor of English, C.E.T., Bhubaneswar E-mail ID: [email protected] Abstract Anita Desai is one of the prominent and prolific Indian English novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and was acknowledged with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel, Fire on the Mountain. As a great social visionary, Anita Desai, with her sharp insight keenly observes the position and status of women in the contemporary Indian society for which she has occupied a unique place in the history of Indian Article Received: 09/1/2020 English fiction. In her early novels she has explored the family problems, which lead Article Accepted: 02/02/2020 to the estrangement of the women from their family. In the later novels she has Published online: 10/02/2020 projected her stereotyped Western views on India. She is more interested in the DOI: 10.33329/rjelal.8.1.192 interior landscape of the mind than in political and social realities. She is sensitive in portraying the diasporic sensibilities in the characters of her fiction, Bye- Bye Blackbird and Baumgartner’s Bombay. Anita’s descriptions are simple, uncomplicated and vivid, promising the reader a journey through the wriggles of life.