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DUDT, CHARMAZEL. "Jhabvala's Fiction: The Passage From India" 159-64 in Kessler-
Harris, Alice & McBrien, William., eds Faith of a (Woman) Writer Westport CT:
Greenwood, 1988, ix + 350 pp.
EZEKIEL, NISSIM. "Cross-Cultural Encounter in Literature" Indian PEN 43.11-12
(1977):4-8.
GOONERATNE, YASMINE. "'Traditional' Elements in the fiction of Kamala Markandaya,
R.K. Narayan and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala" WLWE 15.1 (April 1976):121-34.
GOONERATNE, YASMINE. "Irony as an Instrument of Social and Self-analysis in Ruth
Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust" New Literature Review 4 (1978):41-50.
Focuses on narrative strategy and questions whether the intense honesty and reliability
of the narrator shifts into a growing psychological imbalance causing total disintegration of the
personality in the novel's final pages. Examines the narrator's character concerned with
psychological investigation as an exercise in self-analysis or, in another approach,forms the
basis of an archetypal quest-figure. Deems this fiction entirely psychologically relevant to the
author's own mental condition and completely unsatiric in intent. Finds "Heat and Dust" boldly
self-reflexive and dominated by an ironic detachment.
GOONERATNE, YASMINE. "Ruth Jhabvala: Generating Heat and Light" Kunapipi 1
(1978): 115-29.
Takes the Indian literary community to task for their refusal to grant Mrs. Jhabvala the
serious critical treatment she deserves. The award of the Booker Prize in l975 has engendered
resentment rather than opened up substantive critical assessment. Extends earlier
considerations in thematic criticism by noting a deliberate change from early fiction based on
social satire to a new concern with loneliness and isolation as expressed in Heat and Dust and
the short story volume, How I Became a Holy Mother and Other Stories. Offers a humanistic
universalist approach extending the author's focus on 'India' to a wider context beyond
nationalism and regionalism.
GOONERATNE, YASMINE. "Film into Fiction: The Influence upon Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's
Fiction of Her Work for the Cinema, 1960-76" WLWE 18.2 (November 1979):368-86.
Suggests an extremely close interaction between the author's writing in novels, short
stories and film scripts during this decade and a half. Observes that Jhabvala's technical
improvements in fiction writing correlate to learned cinematic techniques. Specifically applies
the subjective camera technique to A New Dominion, especially its division into scenes rather
than chapters. Details the strict control of flashbacks as integral to the portraits of Olivia and
Ms. Rivers in Heat and Dust. Psychological critique centred on people's deliberate editing of
historical fact in such a way as to present a finished fiction to themselves acceptable as
sanctioned "historical truth".
GOONERATNE, YASMINE. "Satirical Semi-Colon: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Screenplay for
Bombay Talkie" Journal of Indian Writing 8.1&2 (1980):78-81. Reprinted in SINGH,
KIRPAL ed. Through Different Eyes: Foreign Responses to Indian Writing in English
Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1984: 248-254.
Examines Jhabvala's scriptwriting abilities and locates her talent in proffering a selfreflexive
analysis of the Bombay film industry. Contends that satire of the stock incidents of
the popular film works as the author's operative principle in 'Bombay Talkie'. Notices