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100			_aMishra,Vibha
245			_aStudy of Feminism in the Novels of Anita Desai/ _cVibha Mishra
260			_aDelhi: _bSatyam Publishing House, _c2021
300			_av, 161p.
504			_aIncludes Bibliography.
520			_aAnita Desai’s work represents a unique blending of the Indian and the western. Her novels catch the bewilderment of the individual psyche confronted with the overbearing socio-cultural environment and the ever-beckoning modern promise of self-gratification and self-fulfilment. In the face of this dual onslaught, her protagonists, male or female — Maya, Sita, Monisha and Amla; Sarah, Nanda and Raka; Bim and Tara; Devan, Baumgartner — are seen poised rentalizingly at different junctures of the philosophic spectrum. Applying sociological, psychoanalytic, structural and other approaches of formal textual analysis, the essays in the present anthology take a fresh look at established works, revealing aspects of study hitherto unexplored, offer critically insightful probes into individual novels and explore the deployment of images, symbols and other poetic devices, besides diverse narrative strategies. An indispensable source-book for students, researchers and teachers of Indian English and Commonwealth Literature in general and fiction and Anita Desai in particular. An insightful companion for research in sociology and women-studies.
650			_aEnglish literature- novel of Anita Desai
650			_aIndian and western tradition of feminism
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