SOURCE: "History and Letters: Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay," in World Literature Written in English, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring, 1990, pp. 37-46.
In the essay below, Newman examines "the relation between discourse and history" in Baumgartner's Bombay.
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