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The book is a pioneering study of its kind, Chronologically examining the novels of Anita Desai mostly from a feminist point of view. The book exce...

Today Anita Desai is recognised for her originality, versatility and the indigenous flavour of her character-portrayal that she brings to her work....

This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian power...

Anita Desai and her novels have been an enigma for decades. Scholars, critics, researchers and students have never stopped marvelling about suprema...

Within the social structure of India itself, there had been a typical man-woman relationship in terms of dependence and support. Woman was supposed...

British literature can boast of an illustrious, prestigious past and an exciting, evocative present. New Perspectives in British Literature provide...

The book examines contemporary Indian women writers working in the English language, namely Anita Nair, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, and Meena Kandasamy, a...

Beginning with a comprehensive survey of feminism’s most important themes and concerns and providing a critical evaluation of the various aspects o...

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their la...

Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English: New Perspectives attempts to study and analyse some prominent Indian women novelists whose contribu...

This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian reli...

Anita Desai, a recipient of many literary awards in India and abroad, and a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since...

The present book traces the background to Indian English women’s fiction, excluding the translated texts, from the late nineteenth century novels o...

“A woman is physically, emotionally and psychologically different from man. Let her build a world of her own and let man lend her a hand to do so.”...

The present book primarily aims at tracing influences central to both Ngugi and Anand, especially of Marx, Gandhi and Fanon in the constructions of...

The word ‘diaspora’, derived from the Greek word diaspeiro, literally means scattering or dispersion of the people from their homeland. Diasporic w...

Anita Desai’s work represents a unique blending of the Indian and the western. Her novels catch the bewilderment of the individual psyche confronte...

This book focuses on the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India. It considers the long aftermath and afterlives of Partition afresh, from a wide ...

The book Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature attempts to analyze Postcolonial poetry, Caribbean poetry, Indian english poetry, Canadian fic...

Contemporaneity of Class and Caste in India navigates the historical currents and contemporary manifestations of these deep-rooted social hierarchi...

“It is by now clear that a feminist renaissance is under way,” remarked Adrienne Rich, the great American poet and feminist. Contemporary feminist ...

Contemporary Indian Writings in English is a unique collection of some scholarly essays on the works of some eminent Indian Writers in English. Thi...