Anita Desai (1937- )

 

Links to Other Web Sites:

Indian Writing in English (information on authors like Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, etc.)

SASIALIT LIST (discussion of contemporary literature of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; authors discussed include: Anita Desai, Farrukh Dhondy, Amitav Ghosh, Romesh Gunesekera, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Hanif Kureishi, Gita Mehta, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Bapsi Sidhwa)

 

Recommended Background Texts:

Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day (1980) PR9499.3.D465 C54

Jain, Jasbir, Stairs to the Attic: The Novels of Anita Desai (1987) (on order)

Jussawalla, Feroza, Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1985) (on order)

Mukherjee, Meenakshi, The Twice-Born Fiction (1971) (on order)

Srivastava, Ramesh K., Perspectives on Anita Desai (1984) (on order)

Walsh, William, Indian Literature in English (1990) (on order)

 

Audiovisual Resources:

Desai, Anita, Anita Desai, fiction reading and interview with Marilyn Samuels, December 14, 1989, 1 videocassette, 30 min (World Literature Library, CA 303)