The Novels of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai
Author : Sunaina Singh
Publisher : New Delhi : Creative Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The Novels of Anita Desai
Author : Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9788171568994
Book Description
Anita Desai S Work Represents A Unique Blending Of The Indian And The Western. Her Novels Catch The Bewilderment Of The Individual Psyche Confronted With The Overbearing Socio-Cultural Environment And The Ever-Beckoning Modern Promise Of Self-Gratification And Self-Fulfilment. In The Face Of This Dual Onslaught, Her Protagonists, Male Or Female Maya, Sita, Monisha And Amla; Sarah, Nanda And Raka; Bim And Tara; Devan, Baumgartner Are Seen Poised Rentalizingly At Different Junctures Of The Philosophic Spectrum.Applying Sociological, Psychoanalytic, Structural And Other Approaches Of Formal Textual Analysis, The Essays In The Present Anthology Take A Fresh Look At Established Works, Revealing Aspects Of Study Hitherto Unexplored, Offer Critically Insightful Probes Into Individual Novels And Explore The Deployment Of Images, Symbols And Other Poetic Devices, Besides Diverse Narrative Strategies.An Indispensable Source-Book For Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Indian English And Commonwealth Literature In General And Fiction And Anita Desai In Particular.An Insightful Companion For Research In Sociology And Women-Studies.
True Stories
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : CNIB, [198-]
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
This book is Margaret Atwood's ninth collection of poems.
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Author : MARGARET ARWOOD
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Women and Trauma in the Works of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai
Author : Naadiya Yaqoob Mir
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1527525139
Book Description
This book highlights the everyday trauma that women experience while finding themselves as victims of a deeply masculine and prejudiced milieu. It details a kind of counter-memory, broadening readers’ awareness about women’s trauma narratives. The works analysed here are all authored by women, and have significant claims to be treated as feminist trauma fiction, that is, as novels that are preoccupied with a socio-political analysis of women’s status and that espouse social or psychological transformation. The book will serve to expand the reader’s awareness of trauma by engaging them with personalised means of narration that highlight the troubled ambivalence of traumatic memory and warn us that trauma gets reproduced if left unattended. For both Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai, trauma emerges as a major and dominating theme in their works. In spite of being culturally separate, both Atwood and Desai show striking similarities as far as their art of writing is concerned.
Life Before Man
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
"Life Before Man vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, they are forced to make drastic choices - after the rules have changed and the boundaries have become faded. There is Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, who seeks solutions in the wrong men; Nate, wry and gentle husband of Elizabeth, racked by an inability to decide; and Lesje, quiet and inexperienced, who prefers dinosaurs to most men. Hanging over all of them is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover...and the threat of three lives careering inevitably toward potential catastrophe. "From the Hardcover edition.
Lady Oracle
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781417629428
Book Description
"A rich, subtle, deep, delicate, nourishing book. It's all joy, but it stays with you. She has things to tell us". -- The Philadelphia Inquirer Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time. "A wonderfully unpretentious comic romp...a fine novel: inventive...funny, and a pleasure to read. -- Mordechai Richler "A very funny novel, lightly told with wry detachment and considerable art". -- the Washington Post Book World "Funny, poignant, and briskly energetic". -- Newsweek
The Blind Assassin
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0771008910
Book Description
“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on a distant planet. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama that comes together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.
Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551994909
Book Description
Dancing Girls is Margaret Atwood’s highly praised first collection of short fiction. In it she explores the dark intricacies of the mind, the complexities of human relationships, and the clashes between cultures. In the stories, the mundane and the bizarre intersect in unexpected ways: ex-wives indulge in an odd feast at a psychiatrist’s funeral; a young student is pursued by an obsessed immigrant; an old woman stores up supplies against an impending cataclysm. The fourteen stories range in setting from Canada to England, from Mexico to the United States, and portray characters who touch us and arouse in us compassion and understanding. In this astonishing collection, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.
The Novels of Anita Desai
Author : Ramesh Kumar Gupta
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 9788126901715
Book Description
The Book Is A Pioneering Study Of Its Kind, Chronologically Examining The Novels Of Anita Desai Mostly From A Feminist Point Of View. The Book Excels In Formally Analysing Indian And Western Traditions Of Feminism, Man-Woman Relationship And Art Of Characterisation In The Overall Context Of The Feminine Psyche Which It Thoroughly Examines. Anita Desai S Is A World Of Married Women Who Combat To Get Out Of The Maniacles That Bind Them; To Evolve From Being A Mere Nonentity Victim To A Vibrant Individual Capable Of Breaking The Fetters Without Breaking The Relationship. The Book Is A Voyage From A Sense Of Incompetence And Paranoia To Self-Awareness And Resilience, To Self-Poise And Concord Within The Family Matrix. Dr. Gupta Shows How Anita Desai Has Depicted The Depths Of Human Consciousness And Subconsciousness In Her Existential Concern Which Makes Her Writings Uniquely Powerful Through Feminism. Hence, The Need And Justification Of The Book To Undertake The Present Study Of Her New Perspective On Feminism.
