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 Desai, Anita
55 words, approx. 1 pages (born June 24, 1937, Mussoorie, India) Indian novelist and author of children's books. Considered India's premier imagist writer, she excels in evoking character and mood through visual images. Her works include Fire on the Mountain (1977), Clear Light... summary from source:
 Anita Desai Information
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Anita Mazumdar Desai (born June 24 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran...
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 The Washington Post Anita Desai: Restless Heart
05/28/2000: 1,102 words, approx. 4 pages In Anita Desai's reckoning, one and one do not make two. They make three, four even. In her logic, if you are a compound of two cultures, you are more likely fractured in myriad ways, launched on a lifetime of shapeshifts and in-betweens. It... summary from source:
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 AP News Desai's 'Inheritance' wins fiction prize
3/9/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pagesKiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," a narrative of global discovery and displacement that has already won the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award."To be claimed by the place in which you live means so...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jasbir Jain
9,565 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following overview of Desai's works, Jain focuses on what he considers her "primary preoccupation": "The absurdity of human life, with the existential search for meaning in it and the inability of men to accept a religious solution."
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Critical Essay by Rajeswari Mohan
9,447 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Mohan explores the effects of English literary studies on the subjectivities of the postcolonial urban Indian middle class in Desai's works, suggesting that the unspoken gendered and imperialist premises of colonial culture limit the potential and aesthetic growth of the colonized.
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Critical Essay by Cindy Lacom
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In the following essay, Lacom examines the social contexts and ideologies of disabled characters in Clear Light of Day and Fatima Gallaire-Bourega's You Have Come Back, demonstrating the relationship between postcolonial and feminist studies and disabled persons.
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