Desai

Women’s Language: A history of Indian-English Women Writers. “Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some would say greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out, she was locked

The name of my case study is Rekha Desai. She is a fifty-two year old indian female. She is hardworking, outgoing, and mother of two. Rekha is very health concise and sticks to primarily a plant base diet. She has been a vegetarian for thirty-seven years. Rekha follows this lifestyle with her four sisters. Shortly after turning twenty, Rekha had a arrange marriage to a financially stable indian gentleman named, Uday and they have to two kids, Gopal and Bella. Rekha is currently employed as a teller

down emotionally and isolate herself from her daily activities as a homemaker. She takes an illusion as protective umbrella and as the only alternative force to hide her incapacity to adjust herself to the existed norms of society that she belongs. Desai here embodies the common yearning of womanhood for an individual identity and a passionate longing for the fullest life. Sita’s frustration drives her to the island, Manori, a corruption free world, void of mere appetite and sex, where she hopes to

Introduction Kiran Desai is an Indian writer. In the age of fifteen years, she left India for England with her mother. Her mother’s name is Anita Desai, who is also a recognized writer. After a year they moved to the America, where Desai has lived till date. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the America. She is a part of the Indian diaspora. Kiran Desai’ first novel is Hullaballo in the Guava Orchard. In this novel, she is dexterously able to portray male psyche. She won Booker

As might be expected from the rich input of her cultural background, Kiran Desai, daughter of the author Anita Desai is a born story-teller. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), is a fresh look at life in the sleepy provincial town of Shahkot in India. At 35 years old, Desai is the youngest woman ever to win the prize and was already highly acclaimed in literary circles for her first novel ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ which won a Betty Trask award [2] when it was published

Anita Desai, the grand dame of Indian English literature, was born in Mussorie on 24 June 1937, of a Bengali father and a German mother. This identity of her plays a significant role in the portrayal of characters in most of her novels especially Bye, Bye Blackbird as it presents the cultural crises suffered by her main characters due to the East-West encounters. This novel is considered to be most intimately connected to her own experience as she herself has mentioned in an interview thus, “…of

Department of English Acharya Nagarjuna University Guntur swathitvn@gmail.com Winner of the Booker prize 2006, Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971. Daughter of an eminent Indian English author Anita Desai, she has carved out a name for herself as a novelist by writing just two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is in the form of a fable and told

loss, is a moving novel by Indian writer Kiran Desai, whereby we see the effect of colonialism and post colonialism and the consequence that comes with it. Many critical themes are explored, Leach lists them as “colonialism, a revolution, multi-ethnic nationhood and illegal immigration in the US, where political allegiance impacts on love affairs, and where the reality of life in a grubby New York basement reshapes the American Dream” (2007). Desai mentions many of these historical events in her

‘Games at twilight’ is a short story written by Anita Desai. The story is about a young boy called Ravi who plays hide and seek with his brothers and sisters in a very hot summer day. He wants to win the game so that he can have all the glory of beating his relatives. He hides in a very dark shed and he waits for the right moment to get out, touch the ‘den’ and eventually win the game. I believe that the last part of the story is the most important because the writer presents the innocence of a child

differences and similarities are there between the Indian and American families, between corresponding members of the two families (for example, Mama and Mrs. Potter), and between the their communities? 9. "I've always been aware of food as an obsession," Desai has said. What function does food play in the novel? How does food provide both "focus and continuity" in both societies? 10. What instances and images of imprisonment and entrapment occur in the novel's two parts? To what extent is entrapment of