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dramatised. Monisha’s case is more akin to Maya’s. Unlike Monisha, Sita in Where shall we
go this Summer? rejects her meaningless life, but finds that escape carries dangers too. Her
decision to return to Bombay is unconvincing.
NANDAKUMAR, PREMA. "Sombre the Shadows and Sudden the Lights: A Study of
Anita Desai's Novels" in NAIK, M.K. Perspectives on Indian Fiction in English New Delhi:
Abhinav Publications, 1985: 174-99.
NARASIMHAN, RAJI. “Desai versus Desani: Norms of Appreciation.” Indian Literature 16.
nos. 3&4 (1973): 180-4.
Indo-English writing counters colonialist denigration of ‘the native’, so Desani’s verbose
metaphysical intensities are valued for supporting the underdog, as is Desai’s Bye Bye
Blackbird. Voices in the City has a more “robust domestic relevance” but is overrated
because it sets Western acculturation above local experience. Such a ‘nationalist’ criticism
allows disregard of Desani’s hybridised binary of brown and white in which Hatterr
experiences “rockbottom” vairagya that resists religiosity and despair alike. His language is
lively and spontaneous, lying beyond the clichés of Indo-English writing.
PANDEY, LAL UDAI BHAN. "Art and Vision of Anita Desai" The Quest, 4.2, (1990): 18-
28.
PANDEY, LALU U.B. “Seething Cauldron of Existence: A Thematic Study of Anita Desai’s
‘In Custody’” New Literary Horizons 3.1 (1988): 85-90.
The novel depicts the bewildering fluctuations in life governed by time and change. Compares
the work to Camus’ Sisyphus and sees it as denying sublime ideals in the face of failure and
frustration.
PANIGRAHI, BIPIN B. & KIRPAL, VINEY. "The Dangling Man: Deven in Anita Desai's
In Custody" in KIRPAL, VINEY, ed. & introd. The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of
the 80s New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1990: 271-8.
PANIGRAHI, BIPIN B. "Self-Apprehension and Self-Identity in Clear Light of Day" in
KIRPAL, VINEY, ed. & introd. The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 80s New
Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1990: 73-81.
PARASURAM, LAXMI. "Fire on the Mountain: A New Dimension of Feminine Self-
Perception" The Literary Criterion 16.3 (1981):58-64.
The criticism focuses on the growth of independence of Anita Desai's heroines.
PATIL, UJWALA. "Sexual Violence and Death in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain" in
GUPTA, G.S. BALARAMA., ed. Studies in Indian Fiction in English Gulbarga: JIWE
Publications, 1987: 61-7.
PETERSEN, KIRSTEN HOLST. "Anita Desai" Kunapipi 6.3 (1984):83-5. interview?
PRASAD, MADHUSUDAN. Anita Desai the Novelist Allahabad: New Horizon, 1982, 148
pp.