Anita Desai
(1937-)

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FACULTY RESOURCES

Women's Literature

Sappho of Lesbos
Li Ch'ing Chao
Murasaki Shikibu
Sei Shonagon
Mirabai
Virginia Woolf

Chinese/Japanese Literature

Book of Songs
Confucius
Tao Ch'ien
Tang Poetry
The Manyoshu & The Kokinshu
The Tale of the Heike
Yoshida Kenko
Zeami Motokiyo
Higuchi Ichiyo
Wu Ch'eng-en
K'ung Shang-jen
Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
Lu Xun
Ihara Saikaku
Matsuo Basho
Ueda Akinari
Tanizaki Junichiro
Kawabata Yasunari

Indian Literature

The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Kalidasa
Medieval Devotional Lyrics
Mahasweta Devi
Anita Desai
Rabindranath Tagore
Premchand

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED READING

  • Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day (1980) PR9499.3.D465 C54
  • Jain, Jasbir, Stairs to the Attic: The Novels of Anita Desai (1987)
  • Jussawalla, Feroza, Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1985)
  • Mukherjee, Meenakshi, The Twice-Born Fiction (1971)
  • Srivastava, Ramesh K., Perspectives on Anita Desai (1984)
  • Walsh, William, Indian Literature in English (1990)

 

AUDIOVISUAL

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

 

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