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Desani, G.V.
ARORA, SHANKAR MOAHN. "The Meaning Behind the 'Gesture': A Study of G.V.
Desani's All About H. Hatterr" Journal of Indian Writing in English, 18.2, (1990): 19-30.
Locates the book’s meaning in two interrelated issues, 1) the business of living one’s life, 2)
the matter of intercultural identity. Perceives its primary message is the joy of family life
unattained by Hatterr. Examines the basis for survival in this world contrasted by the continual
struggle between good and evil.
BARDOLPH, J. "Language Madness in Desani's All About H. Hatterr" Commonwealth 8.1
(1985):1-13. Analyses various modes of rhetorical formation and defines their function.
Locates his melange of language in Indianisms, collage, code switching and orality. Asserts
three purposes for Desani’s unique language mix, 1)entertainment, 2) expresses the writer’s
voice, 3) self-referentiality.
BURJOREE, D.M. "The Dialogue in G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr" WLWE 13
(1974):191-224. Identifies this work as a dialogue novel whose conversations are pivotal to
its structural integrity. Observes that the problem of the Eurasian is primarily cultural, not
biological. Offers the perspective that language can not perform its communicative function.
DESANI, G.V. "Difficulties of Communicating an Oriental to a Western Audience"
(REPRINTED IN Journal of Literature and Aesthetics 2.2&3 (1982):9-16.) in
NARASIMHAIAH, C.D. ed. Awakened Conscience: Studies in Commonwealth Literature,
New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1978 (also Hong Kong: Heinemann Asia, 1978): 401-407.
HARREX, S.C. "The Novel as Gesture" in NARASIMHAIAH, C.D. ed. Awakened
Conscience: Studies in Commonwealth Literature, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1978 (also
Hong Kong: Heinemann Asia, 1978): 73-85.
MOORTHY, P. RAMA. “Culture as Tale: An Examination of Tangi and Hali “ The Literary
Criterion Vol. 14.1 (1980): 20-32.
Contrasts the Western masculine interpretation of death with the Indian feminine sensibility of
it. Indian concept of karuna compared to the Maori concept of aroha. Finds the thirty-three
chapters of Witi Ihimaera’s Tangi (1973) and the fifteen sections of Desani’s Hali (1950) to
be lamentations ending in a very similar state of aroha or karuna.
NAIK, M.K. "Colonial Experience in All About H. Hatterr" The Humanities Review 2.3&4
(1980):41-5. Employing both realism and symbolism, this novel explores several aspects of
colonialism. Beliram, Banerrji and Hatterr are only variations on the archetype of the colonial.
Probes the personality patterns constructed by the complex psychological disruption of the
colonial experience.
NAIK, M.K. "Colonial Experience in All about H. Hatterr" Commonwealth Novel in English
1.1 (January 1982):37-49. CHECK NO & YEAR (1&2? 1984?)
NAIK, M.K. "Form and Style in All About H. Hatterr" Karnatak University Journal:
Humanities 29 (1985-86):1-17.