Anita Desai\'s Fiction : Themes and Techniques
Contents: Preface. 1. Alienation and isolation in Anita Desai\'s cry, the peacock/Arvind M. Nawale. 2. Portrayal of Maya as distressed self in Anita Desai\'s cry the peacock/P. Kiruthika and J. Sakthi Kumaar. 3. Trappings of the mind: a psychoanalytic exploration of the neurotic psyche in Anita Desai\'s Cry, the peacock/G. Rajeev. 4. Quest for feminine identity in Anita Desai\'s voices in the city/T. Sasikanth Reddy. 5. Survival instinct in Anita Desai\'s bye-bye blackbird and fire on the mountain/Beena V. Rathi. 6. Narrative through foils in bye bye blackbird/P. Roopana. 7. Interior voyage of sita in Anita Desais where shall we go this summer/R. Manjushree. 8. Inner violence and repression in fire on the mountain: tension and subjugation of the female society of post Independence and quest for identity/Rima Namhata and Aritra Das. 9. Time as the fourth dimension in human existence: a study of Anita Desai\'s clear light of the day/M.M. Dhalayat and S.M. Chillur. 10. Endeavour against odds: the village by the sea/Dalvir Singh Gahlawat. 11. Exploration of male psyche in Anita Desais in custody/Anju Bala Agrawal. 12. Anita Desai\'s in custody: a dialectics on existentialism/Sophia Jaychandran. 13. Contesting the grand narrative: a postmodernist reading of Anita Desai\'s in custody/Subhajit Bhadra. 14. Jeopardy of traumatic histories in Anita Desai\'s Baumgartner\'s Bombay/M. Preetha. 15. Transcendentalism in Anita Desais fasting feasting/Vishwanath Bite. 16. Entrapment of major characters in Anita Desai\'s Fasting Feasting/Mothe Prashant Subhash. 17. Human relations and inner Turmoil as reflected in Anita Desai\'s short story collection Diamond dust/Urmi Satyan. 18. Study of Anita Desai\'s the zigzag way/M.F. Patel. 19. Feminism in Anita Desai\'s novels/Pawar Balasaheb G. 20. Modernism in Indian English short fiction: the case of Anita Desai/M.G. Hegde.
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. 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. (jacket)
