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encountering the Eastern holy man. Pays particular attention to the sexual patterns common to
Jhabvala's fiction, characterised as skeptical and sardonic, about the swami figure.
BRADBURY, NICOLA. "Filming James" Essays in Criticism 29.4 (October 1979):293-301.
[Jhabvala?]
CHADHA, RAMESH. Cross-Cultural Interaction in Indian English Fiction: An Analysis of
the Novels of Ruth Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya New Delhi: National Book
Organisation, 1988, xii + 166 pp.
CHADHA, RAMESH. "Heat and Dust and The Coffer Dams: A Comparative Study" Journal
of Indian writing in English 10.1&2 (1982):24-30.
Correlates many similarities in her examination of two novels by women writers based
on the breakdown of Western marriages in India and the woman's subsequent relationship
with an Indian male. Establishes the women characters as unfulfilled in conventional married
life due to differing outlooks and lack of mutual understanding. Reads as proto-feminist
criticism as yet not fully conversant with the theory and terminology now applied by that
critical practice.
CRANE, RALPH J. "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources"
Journal of Commonwealth Literature 20.1 (1985):171-203.
CRANE, RALPH S. "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Sky: Escape from the Heat and Dust?" Span
24 (1987):178-89.
CRONIN, RICHARD. "The Hill of Devi and Heat and Dust" EIC (April 1986):142-59.
DAVE, JAGDISH V. “Ruth Jhabvala’s Two-Stream Technique in ‘Heat and Dust ‘ “ Triveni
57.2 (1988): 75-80.
The two-stream technique combines the separate stories of Olivia and the narrator
into a single narrative frame centred on place. Discusses the question of the correct approach
to India by Europeans. Perceives Mrs. Jhabvala advocates a European love India from a
distance to maintain its romance.
DE SOUZA, EUNICE. "The Blinds Drawn and the Airconditioner On: The Novels of Ruth
Prawer Jhabvala" WLWE 17.1 (1978):219-24.
Accuses Jhabvala of lack of development in her writing skills noting a sameness of
style and stereotyping of characters. Asserts all Jhabvala's characters are reduced to onedimensionality
without depth or objectivity in their depictions. Claims the author has evaded
any attempt at analysis of East/West differences and conflicts in values, philosophy and life
styles. Jhabvala's lack of sociological insight compared to more perceptive writing in Angus
Wilson's As If By Magic and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea.
DE SOUZA, EUNICE. "The Expatriate Experience" in NARASIMHAIAH, C.D. ed.
Awakened Conscience: Studies in Commonwealth Literature, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers,
1978 (also Hong Kong: Heinemann Asia, 1978: 339-345