Critical Responses to Kiran Desai

Critical Responses to Kiran Desai
Author: Sunita Sinha
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN: 9788126912421

Contributed articles on the works of Kiran Desai, b. 1971, Booker Prize 2006 winner.

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss
Author: Kiran Desai
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1555845916

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review). In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s chatty cook watches over the girl, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one miserable New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai’s new-sprung romance with her tutor, the household descends into chaos. The cook witnesses India’s hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge revisits his past and his role in Sai and Biju’s intertwining lives. In a grasping world of colliding interests and conflicting desires, every moment holds out the possibility for hope or betrayal. Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters and “uncannily beautiful” prose (O: The Oprah Magazine). “A book about tradition and modernity, the past and the future—and about the surprising ways both amusing and sorrowful, in which they all connect.” —The Independent

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Author: Kiran Desai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780871137111

Sampath Chawla, a young postal worker who never feels as though he fits into the small Indian town into which he is born, one day climbs up a tree, only to become a famous holy man

Transversal Subjects

Transversal Subjects
Author: B. Reynolds
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2009-05-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230239285

Transversal Subjects, now in paperback, proposes a combined theory of consciousness, subjectivity and agency stemming from analyses of junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that have greatly influenced the development of present-day understandings of perception, identity, desire, mimesis, aesthetics, education and human rights.

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India
Author: Zélia M. Bora
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1498581153

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains. This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers “losing nature.” In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential “balance” of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reconstructed and deconstructed at will by the powerful influence of the past alongside that of globalization and technocratic market structures. The volume contemplates the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

Rematerializing Shakespeare

Rematerializing Shakespeare
Author: B. Reynolds
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230505031

To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of, nor is it to restore to some material existence its priority over the imaginary. Indeed, this collection of work by some of the most highly-regarded critics in Shakespeare studies does not offer a single theoretical stance on any of the various forms of critical materialism (Marxism, cultural materialism, new historicism, transversal poetics, gender studies, or performance criticism), but rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and the desired. Nothing returns in this rematerialization, unless it is a return in the sense of the repressed, which, when it comes back, comes back as something else. An all-star line-up of contributors includes Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Catherine Belsey and Doug Bruster.

World Mosaics of Literary Analysis: Accepting Differences and Embracing Diversities

World Mosaics of Literary Analysis: Accepting Differences and Embracing Diversities
Author: Suzana Haji Muhammad, Agnes Liau Wei Lin
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9674615792

This collection renders an invigorating take into engaging ideas that traverse various literary issues. Each chapter opens our minds to the thrilling possibilities of approaching literary texts and paves the way for appreciating literature more widely. Although appearing divergent in nature, these chapters do encourage literary exploration and appreciation. Literature celebrates diversities and differences, and this book World Mosaics of Literary Analysis: Accepting Differences and Embracing Diversities admittedly urges its readers to accept differences and to embrace diversities. Undeniably there is strength in diversity.