Anita Desai\'s Fiction : A Study Through Different Perspectives
Contents: Preface. 1. An escape from madding world: Maya in Anita Desai\'s cry the peacock/Arvind M. Nawale. 2. Time and narrative in Anita Desai\'s cry the peacock/Zinia Mitra. 3. The journey within essence and evanescence in Anita Desai\'s cry the peacock/T. Sasikanth Reddy. 4. The dissolution of feminine sensibility in Anita Desai\'s cry the peacock/Megha Pandit. 5. The ethos of corrupt commercial life, decay and disintegration: a study of Anita Desai\'s Novel voices in the city/M.M. Dhalayat and S. M. Chillur. 6. A sociological study of Anita Desais novels: cry the peacock voices in the city and where shall we go this summer/Dalvir Singh Gahlawat. 7. Feeling of otherness in an Alien culture: a study of Anita Desais bye bye blackbird/Urmi Satyan. 8. Feminine sensibility in Anita Desai\'s fire on the mountain and selected works of Kamala Das/Jennifer G. Joseph. 9. The other and the order of western knowledge: representations of Indian womanhood in Anita Desai\'s Scholar and Gypsy/James Tar Tsaaior. 10. Frailty thy name is man : a comparative study of Anita Desai\'s Bim of clear light of the day and Mohsin Hamid\'s Mumtaz of moth smoke/Devang Rangani. 11. Treatment of India and Indian life in Anita Desai\'s the village by the sea/Anju Bala Agrawal. 12. Aging or old age: a mechanism of disintegration in Anita Desai\'s in custody and fasting feasting/M. Anjum Khan. 13. Hope in the wake of despair : a study of Anita Desai\'s the village by the sea/Sophia Jaychandran. 14. Anita Desai\'s in custody: the conflict between fantasy and realism/Ramesh Tibile. 15. Confinement of the main protagonist Deven in Anita Desai\'s in custody/Prashant Subhash Mothe. 16. A critical study of Anita Desai\'s Baumgartners Bombay/Hemant A. Patel.17. The aesthetics of dialogized discourse: a critical reading of Anita Desai\'s Baumgartners Bombay/Subhajit Bhadra and Stuti Goswami. 18. Laila: the feminist quest for self love in Anita Desai\'s journey to Ithaca/Sheeba Rakesh. 19. Women in Anita Desai\'s diamond dust/Shubha Mukherjee. 20. In quest of the past: Anita Desai\'s the zig zag way/Smita R. Lakhotia Nagori.
Anita Desai\'s Fiction: A Study through different perspectives edited by Dr. Arvind Nawale 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 indepth 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. (jacket)
