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Biography

Name: Anita Desai
Variant Name: Anita Mazumbar
Birth Date: June 24, 1937
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

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Biography of Anita Desai
5,412 words, approx. 18 pages
One of the most accomplished fiction writers of English today, Anita Desai has established herself through the consistency of her formidable body of work. From acclaimed children's fiction--The Village by the Sea: An Indian Family Story (1982) won the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Anita Desai Information
746 words, approx. 3 pages
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...


News and Journals
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Desai's 'Inheritance' wins fiction prize
3/9/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
Kiran 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...


Criticism and Essays
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
7,067 words, approx. 24 pages
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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