Kiran Desai and Her Fictional World
Contents: Preface. 1. The man booker prize and Kiran Desai: an introduction/Neeru Tandon. 2. What is this entire Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard?/Vijay K. Sharma. 3. Psycho-analytical interpretation of Sampath's character in Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard/Anjana Trivedi. 4. Food as a symbol in Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting/Priya Srivastava. 5. Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: a hilarious comic tale/Reshu Shukla. 6. The art of characterization in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard/Ankita Shukla and Anshul Chandra. 7. The Inheritance of Loss: a legacy of estrangement in the Middle of Nowhere/Eiko Ohira. 8. Sense of place in The Inheritance of Loss: fact and fiction/Neeru Tandon. 9. The Inheritance of Loss: a saga of post-colonial world/Manisha Pandey. 10. Cultural imperialism revisited: a study of Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Punyashree Panda. 11. Men Men postcolonial Indian masculinities in The Inheritance of Loss/Sunita Sinha and Purnendu Chatterjee. 12. Problematizing issues about home, homeland, diaspora and belongingness in transnational and national lands: a study of Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/ Tejinder Kaur. 13. Dialectics of marginality, ethnicity and globalization in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Beena Agarwal. 14. Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss: a cultural production of a Globalized World/G.N. Saibaba. 15. Synthesis of global issues in The Inheritance of Loss/Madhulika Jha. 16. Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss: a diasporic articulation and multiculturalism/Krishna Singh. 17. Exile in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss: a study of the subaltern as opposed to the higher rank/Santwana Haldar. 18. Longing and belonging: search for a homeland in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Vandhana Sharma. 19. The immigrant's quest for inheritance/Supriya Shukla. 20. The immigrant's experience in The Inheritance of Loss/Debarati Ghosh. 21. The loss in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Sandeep Mohan and Neeru Tandon. 22. Pastiche as the mode of expression: a reading of Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Devika Khanna Narula. 23. The blackbird's dilemma: a portrayal by Kiran Desai/Kiran Chaudhry. 24. Past, present and the future in The Inheritance of Loss/Sanjay Solanki. 25. Redefining the self : women in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Raihan Raza. 26. Political backdrop in The Inheritance of Loss: a post colonial phenomenon/Jaya Kapoor. 27. The dynamics of class in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Sumita Parmar.
India has been consistently producing award-winning authors or inspiring other writers to base their works on Indian colour, themes and identity. Kiran Desai has written an exquisite novel which won the prestigious Booker Award and found a place in the New York Times most notable fiction list. This is a novel to be savored for its stunning prose, complex characters and finely captured sense of place.]
Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, published in 1998, received widespread fame and praise. It won the Betty Task Award for the best new novel by citizens of the Commonwealth of nations under the age of 35, published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries, eight years later, The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize. The extraordinary achievement makes the 35 years old Desai the youngest woman ever to win the Booker, a distinction previously enjoyed by Arundhati Roy. A story of such depth and emotion, hilarity and imagination, Desai's second, long-awaited novel fulfills the grand promise established by her first. This novel manages to explore just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence. Desai is now among a growing group of prominent young novelists of Indian background, including Arundhati Roy and Jhumpa Lahiri.
Kiran Desai and Her Fictional World is a collection of twenty-seven critical essays which treat Kiran Desai's works with infinite interest, respect and sensitive understanding. The contributors to the volume have studied the novels of this celebrated writer from various angles. The anthology presents the background of Man Booker Prize and introduces Kiran Desai. Editors have presented this anthology in two sections, each dedicated to one of her novels. This volume will be useful to not only the students of Kiran Desai's fiction, but also the common readers to understand Desai's fictional world better. (jacket)
