Anita Desai : The Novelist Par Excellence

Contents: Preface. 1. The inner conflicts and confrontations in the novels of Anita Desai/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Fictionalization of existential predicament of Indian women: a thematic study of Anita Desai\'s Novels/R.K. Mishra. 3. Exploration of feminine psyche in Anita Desai\'s Novels/Anju Bala Agrawal. 4. The quest for identity reality and spirituality in the Novels of Anita Desai/Usha Garg. 5. Homeostasis world of delusion in the Novels of Anita Desai/Meenu Dubey. 6. Anita Desai\'s short fiction/K. Sandhya and Kanchana Sundaram. 7. Major thematic concerns in the Novels of Anita Desai/M.F. Patel. 8. The feminine consciousness in cry the peacock/T.S. Ramesh. 9. The lonely voyage: a study of feminine psyche in cry The peacock and the dark holds no terrors/B.R. Agrawal and Ravi Jauhari. 10. Feminist consciousness in Anita Desai\'s cry the peacock and where shall we go this summer/Ruby Milhoutra. 11. Alienation in Anita Desai\'s cry the peacock/Ram Sharma. 12. Where shall we go this summer? A case study of subjective exploration/C.U. Kulkarni. 13. Cultural rootlessness in Anita Desai\'s bye bye blackbird/Ashok Chaskar. 14. Voices in the city: a tour de horizon of existentialist philosophy/Gajendra Kumar. 15. Adept at adapting: a portrait of childhood in Anita Desai\'s The Village by the Sea/Lakshmi Sistla. 16. Fire on the mountain: an existential study/Vipin Kumar Pandey. 17. Anita Desai\'s fire on the mountain: a study in passive feminism/Ashok Kumar. 18. Anita Desai\'s journey to Ithaca: a manifestation of the wisdom of oriental philosophy/S.B. Bhambar. 19. Theme of partition in Anita Desai\'s clear light of day/Noorani S.I. Index. 

Anita Desai : The Novelist Par Excellence is a modest attempt to evaluate critically the various aspects of the novels of Anita Desai. The book includes critical research papers of different scholars hailing from the different parts of India. The papers are critical observations on the various novels of Anita Desai i.e. cry the Peacock where shall we go this summer bye bye blackbird voices in the city. The village by the sea fire on the mountain journey to Ithaca clear light of day etc. Some other papers also deal with the existential predicament of Indian women feminine psyche the quest for identity world of delusion and the major thematic concerns in the novels of Anita Desai. (jacket)