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Desai (anita), 1937 --- -Desai (anita), 1937 --- -Desai (anita), 1937-

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Walcott, Derek --- Desai, Anita --- Ngugi wa Thiong'o --- Achebe, Chinua --- Desai (anita), 1937 --- -Achebe, Chinua --- -Desai (anita), 1937 --- Desai (anita), 1937-

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This book offers a culturally-specific reading of Anita Desai’s In Custody informed by indigenous practices and beliefs, which enables global audiences to access contemporary Indian writing in English. It shows that certain constants in multiple belief-systems also allow points of entry, particularly in light of the internationalization of literatures in the post-colonial period. The author argues that Desai’s novel configures the writer’s view of and engagement with global society. It exemplifies transnational writings rooted in different canons which have always migrated, mixed, and mutated. Marta Dvorák investigates the intertextual dialogue programmed into Desai’s novel, which is part of the intercultural practices grounded in both relativism and universalism (Homi Bhabha). She shows how literature encodes ideologies, and how the ideologies are presented through the cultural filter of the author’s discourse conditioning readerly responses. Her study engages with the hybridized narrative traditions of English-language Indian writing, showing how narratives circulate from one culture to another, displacing the migrant symbols and myths through which our global society manufactures meaning.

Desai, Anita (1937-....). In custody --- Littérature de l'Inde de langue anglaise --- Femmes écrivains

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DESAI (ANITA), 1937 --- -SAHGAL (NAYANTARA), 1927 --- -MORRISON (TONI), 1931 --- -WALKER (ALICE), 1944 --- -ROMAN DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ROMAN DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- FEMMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- PAYS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE

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The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, the book addresses the dislocation associated with these phenomena, offering a critical dialogue between these works and contemporary history, using history to interrogate fiction and fiction to think through historical issues. Despite all their differences, the works of these authors delineate the asymmetrical relations of colonialism and the aftermath of this phenomenon as it is manifested across the globe. The binary structures created by the colonial encounter undergo a process of dialectical interplay in which each culture makes incursions into the other. This dialogic interplay becomes the basis for strategies that enable transnational and postcolonial writers to reimagine themselves and their world.

Indic fiction (English) --- Nationalism and literature --- East Indians --- Transnationalism --- Globalization in literature. --- Roman de l'Inde (anglais) --- Nationalisme et littérature --- Indiens (Orientaux) --- Transnationalisme --- Mondialisation dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Histoire et critique --- Vie intellectuelle --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Desai, Anita, --- Rushdie, Salman. --- Ghosh, Amitav, --- Nationalisme et littérature --- Mondialisation dans la littérature --- NAIPAUL (VIDIADHAR SURAJPRASAD), 1932 --- -DESAI (ANITA), 1937 --- -RUSHDIE (SALMAN), 1947 --- -GHOSH (AMITAV) --- ROMAN DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- TRANSNATIONALISME --- MONDIALISATION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- PAYS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE