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Can I read Anita Desai (Writers and Their Work) on EtoBox?
Anita Desai (Writers and Their Work) by Elaine Yee Lin Ho; British Council is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Anita Desai (Writers and Their Work) about?
The notion of thinking as an outside, and the critical distance which this entails, is a key to an understanding of Desai as writer, and a recurrent theme for the discussions of her novels and short stories in her book. It informs her authorial perspectives on India, its places, scenes, and people, and her creative engagement with those who, through a combination of accident and choice, find themselves marginalised, displaced, and dispossessed. The search for other, alternative, worlds outside o
Who reads Anita Desai (Writers and Their Work)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elaine Yee Lin Ho; British Council
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780746309834
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Indic
- Updated
- 2026-03-24