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The present book is the first of its kind to present a Postmodernist Approach to Anita Desai. It endeavours to locate the novelist's concern with the postmodernist socio-cultural conditions. The study attempts to project postmodernism as a new phase of history with its profound impact upon the creative minds of the people and its relevance to the Indian English women's fiction. The book, it is hoped, will be of immense use to students, research scholars and all those interested in Indian English literature. ... Read more

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Today Anita Desai is recognised for her originality, versatility and the indigenous flavour of her character-portrayal that she brings to her work. Her women characters are real flesh and blood protagonists who make you look at them with awe and with their relationships to their surroundings, their society, their men, their children, their families, their mental and psychological make-ups and themselves. The present book purports to be a pioneering attempt to evaluate Desais fiction and fictional art from various points of view and assesses her contribution to the Indian-English fiction. What is unique about this book is the attempt to include Desais complete fictional oeuvre from her maiden attempt Cry, the Peacock (1963) till her latest published work The Zigzag Way (2004). Her novels of four decades have been divided into different sections for a focused study.The present critical anthology of Dr. Neeru Tandon on Anita Desai is an admirable effort on the presentation of a coherent and comprehensive assessment of Anita Desai as a powerful Indian English fiction writer. In her collection she has included certain burning topics of the day such as male-female dichotomy, existentialist vision, religion and culture, concept of marriage and narrative technique in the fiction of Anita Desai. The uncomplicated language and the natural flow of words make for easy reading. Since Dasai is prescribed in the syllabus in most of the universities of India, both the teachers and the students will find this book extremely useful, and the research scholars will also find it very interesting and purposeful. ... Read more

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Chapters: Hans Adolf Krebs, William James Simpson, Anita Desai, Joan Robinson, Mary Cartwright, Hisham Matar, John Hopkins, Bertha Swirles, Anthony Pagden, Honor Fell, Marilyn Strathern, Emily Davies, Katharine Jex-Blake, Norman Housley, Helen Cam, Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Rosemary Murray, Bertha Phillpotts, Leah Price, Vahni Capildeo, Gillian Beer, David Conner, Joan M. Hussey, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Marjorie Chibnall, William Frankel, Stephen Robertson, Peter Manson, Sarah Clackson, Julia Riley, Sidnie Manton, Roger Allen Leigh. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William James Simpson (born 16 March 1954, Melbourne) is an Australian academic. Simpson has worked in academia in Australia, the United Kingdom and The United States of America focusing on Medieval Literature more recently on Middle English and Early Modern literature and culture from 1150-1600. His early work centred around literary analysis of poetry, especially the late 14th century English poem, Piers Plowman. He later worked on Medieval Humanism. In 2002, he published an award winning literary history. His most recent work, "Burning to Read" centres on the fundamentalist Bible reading in the early 16th century. Simpson frequently lectures internationally and reviews books extensively for a range of publications. Simpson contibutes to many organisations and societies focussing on literature. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25198410 ... Read more