scholarly journals KIRAN DESAI’S THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS AS A DIASPORIC NOVEL

2017 ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
Vimal Patel
Keyword(s):  
British Society ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Prize Award

iran Desai, the daughter of Anita Desai occupies a unique place among the modern Indian Writers in English. She is one of the well-known Indian English Novelist. She was born on 3 Sept 1971 in New Delhi, India. She left Columbia University for several years to write her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998). It received 1998 Betty Trask Prize from the British Society of Authors. She wrote second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006). She won the booker prize award for this novel. Kiran Desai is an established diasporic writer of Indian origin. In her fictions, She presents Indians as protagonists. Her novels generally narrate about Indian immigrants who struggle to settle in an alien country usually America. The Inheritance of Loss is an exception among all her novels as it is written in Indian background. The objective of this paper is to analyze The Inheritance of Loss as a novel dealing primarily in diaspora. As a diasporic writer, she exposes all the diasporic elements like marginalization, cultural insularity, nostalgia, alienation, quest for identity and assimilation in her work.

scholarly journals Space and Identity of Women in Indian English Writings

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Dr. Abha Singh
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Bharati Mukherjee ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
True Self ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Traditional Image

The women’s studies have been receiving increasing academic and disciplinary recognition throughout the globe. The writers are determined to narrate, respond and react to the place of women in society. The purpose of the present paper is to redefine the image of women in post colonial Indian English literature. The post colonial Indian English writers focus on major issues relating to woman such as her awakening to the realization of her individuality, her breaking away with the traditional image. The transformation of the idealized women into an assertive self willed woman, searching and discovering her true self is described by various Indian Writers like Anita Desai, Sashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Bharati Mukherjee, Kamla Markandaya, Manju Kapoor and many others have depicted females who are not silent sufferers but have learnt to fight against injustice and humiliation.  

scholarly journals Anita Desai’s Cry the Peacock: A Manifesto of Maya’s Psychological Predicament

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Miss Sarika
Keyword(s):  
Anita Desai ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Psychoanalytic Study ◽  
Psychological Novels

The present paper aims to explore Anita Desai’s Debut novel, Cry, the Peacock as a manifesto of Maya’s psychological predicament. Cry, the Peacock is Anita Desai’s first novel published in 1963. Anita Desai is one of the most known and distinguished Indian English novelists with worldwide fame and name. She is gifted with extraordinary penetration and sharpness of vision. Her works have provided her with worldwide fame and attention. The novelist is accomplished with prospecting psychological insight. Majority of Anita Desai’s novels are the true and real manifesto of women’s situation and predicament. Cry, the Peacock is a manifesto of Maya’s psychological predicament. Desai’s has very well explored the inner or interior world of woman, her anger, frustration and storm raging inside her mind and heart through the protagonist of this novel. The novelist’s concern with the emancipation of Maya can be seen in almost every page of the work. She often peeps into the interior or inner psyche of her main characters instead of just focusing on the outer view. She is a master in composing the psychological novels. She very well knows how to explore the psychic depth of her main protagonists as well to analyse and examine their motives in details. The novelist is generally considered as a trendsetter in the area of psychoanalytic study. Through her extraordinary penetration of vision and sharpness, the novelist has brilliantly portrayed the inner turmoil going on in the psyche of Maya who is a hysterical personality. She is successful in bringing out the frustration, loneliness and claustrophobia of Maya.

The Origins of Fanagalo

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajend Mesthrie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
East Indian ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Sugar Plantations ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds ◽  
Origin Hypothesis ◽  
Written Sources

This paper examines, and refutes, the currently most popular hypothesis concerning the origin of Fanagalo, namely, that it arose on the plantation fields of Natal among indentured East Indian migrants who arrived there from 1860 onwards. Can a pidgin be initiated by a group of migrants from differing linguistic backgrounds in a plantation situation, and still remain in widespread use without showing any substrate influences? If the Indian origin hypothesis is correct, this would indeed be the case: a "crystallized" southern African Pidgin, stable for about a hundred years, would have been created in the sugar plantations of Natal by migrant indentured Indian workers without any tangible influences from any of the five or so Indic and Dravidian languages involved. However, structural and lexical evidence indicates otherwise. Written sources (a first-hand account by an English settler from about 1905, and two published accounts by an English missionary) suggest that the use of Fanagalo in Natal predated the arrival of Indian immigrants by at least ten years. Regarding the origins of Fanagalo, one other viable alternative is examined — the Eastern Cape in the early 1800s. The conclusion is that the most likely site for Fanagalo's genesis was Natal in the mid-nineteenth century.

scholarly journals Inner Conflicts and Racial Prejudices-An Analyses of Expatriates in ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Dr. Indu Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Adjustment Difficulties ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
The World ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Migrant People

 At present many women writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Bhabani Bhattacharya and Anita Desai have worked on the issues of expatriation and the complexities in the life of diasporas. Anita Desai dives deep into the unconscious and subconscious psyche of the expatriates and their nausea, nostalgia and longings to their native land. Expatriation appears as a recurrent motif in post-colonial literature across the world because it constitutes not only the commonly shared experience of the migrant people but also the creative sensibility of their writers. Desai highlights the physical and psychological problems of Indian immigrants and explores the adjustment difficulties that they face in England.

scholarly journals Kamala Das

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Usha Kishore ◽  
B Hariharan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Initial Part ◽  
The South ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The World ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Indian State

Kamala Das Suraiya (1934-2009), who also wrote under the pen name of Madhavikutty, was a bilingual writer from the South Indian state of Kerala and one of the most popular and most controversial poets of Indian English. As a major Indian poet of contemporary times, Das has attracted international attention by her bold and previously unarticulated expressions of womanhood. The recognition of Das as an Indian poet in English came with the PEN Asian Poetry Prize in 1963. Since then her poems have been published in many anthologies including the World Anthology of Living Poets (1973). Her initial poetry collections in English are: Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973) and Tonight, this Savage Rite (Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy, 1979). Many other collections were published subsequently, incorporating both new poems and poems from the above collections.Some of them are: Collected Poems (1984), The Best of Kamala Das (1991), Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (1996), Encountering Kamala (2007) and a posthumous collection, Wages of Love ed. Suresh Kohli in 2013. Collected Poems won the Sahitya Akademi (New Delhi) award in 1984. Other works in English include her novel, Alphabet of Lust (1976), her autobiography, My Story, and short stories A Doll for the Child Prostitute (1977) and Padmavati the Harlot and Other Stories (1992).The initial part of this literary dialogue on Kamala Das between Usha Kishore and Dr B. Hariharan took place at the Institute of English, Thiruvananthapuram, where Usha was on a study trip from Edinburgh Napier University. The following is an email dialogue, incorporating the initial face to face discourse.

scholarly journals Characterization of a New Metallo-β-Lactamase Gene, blaNDM-1, and a Novel Erythromycin Esterase Gene Carried on a Unique Genetic Structure in Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 14 from India

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 5046-5054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongeun Yong ◽  
Mark A. Toleman ◽  
Christian G. Giske ◽  
Hyun S. Cho ◽  
Kristina Sundman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Klebsiella Pneumoniae ◽  
Sequence Type ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Class 1 Integron ◽  
Carbapenem Resistant ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Esterase Gene ◽  
Lactamase Gene

ABSTRACT A Swedish patient of Indian origin traveled to New Delhi, India, and acquired a urinary tract infection caused by a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain that typed to the sequence type 14 complex. The isolate, Klebsiella pneumoniae 05-506, was shown to possess a metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) but was negative for previously known MBL genes. Gene libraries and amplification of class 1 integrons revealed three resistance-conferring regions; the first contained bla CMY-4 flanked by ISEcP1 and blc. The second region of 4.8 kb contained a complex class 1 integron with the gene cassettes arr-2, a new erythromycin esterase gene; ereC; aadA1; and cmlA7. An intact ISCR1 element was shown to be downstream from the qac/sul genes. The third region consisted of a new MBL gene, designated bla NDM-1, flanked on one side by K. pneumoniae DNA and a truncated IS26 element on its other side. The last two regions lie adjacent to one another, and all three regions are found on a 180-kb region that is easily transferable to recipient strains and that confers resistance to all antibiotics except fluoroquinolones and colistin. NDM-1 shares very little identity with other MBLs, with the most similar MBLs being VIM-1/VIM-2, with which it has only 32.4% identity. As well as possessing unique residues near the active site, NDM-1 also has an additional insert between positions 162 and 166 not present in other MBLs. NDM-1 has a molecular mass of 28 kDa, is monomeric, and can hydrolyze all β-lactams except aztreonam. Compared to VIM-2, NDM-1 displays tighter binding to most cephalosporins, in particular, cefuroxime, cefotaxime, and cephalothin (cefalotin), and also to the penicillins. NDM-1 does not bind to the carbapenems as tightly as IMP-1 or VIM-2 and turns over the carbapenems at a rate similar to that of VIM-2. In addition to K. pneumoniae 05-506, bla NDM-1 was found on a 140-kb plasmid in an Escherichia coli strain isolated from the patient's feces, inferring the possibility of in vivo conjugation. The broad resistance carried on these plasmids is a further worrying development for India, which already has high levels of antibiotic resistance.

SOCIAL REALISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF WOMEN PROTAGONIST IN NAYANTARA SAHGAL’S STORM IN CHANDIGARH AND A SITUATION IN NEW DELHI-A STUDY

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
G. Sankar ◽  
L. Kamaraj
Keyword(s):  
High Standard ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Psychological Transformation ◽  
History Of

The Research paper aims to focus on Nayantara Sahgal’s position in it as a novelist. It also discusses in detail a critical study of the social realism and Psychological Transformation with survival strategies of the woman protagonist in Nayantara Sahgal’s Storm in Chandigarh and A Situation in New Delhi. How Nayanara Sahgal’s writing was different from other Indian writers. During almost six decades of post-colonial history of Indian English fiction, a wide variety of novelists have emerged focusing attention on a multitude of social, economic, political, religious and spiritual issues faced by three conceding periods of human experience. With the turn of the century the Indian English novelists have surpassed their male counterparts outnumbering hem quantitatively as well as maintaining a high standard of literary writing, equally applauded in India and abroad, experimenting boldly with not only technique but also incorporating tabooed subject matters in their novels and short stories.

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