Quest For Identity In The Fiction Of Anita Desai

  M. A. Gaikwad,  S. A. Gaikwad

In the short history of four hundred years of Indian writings in English, Indian fiction emerged steadily from the imitative stage to the realistic and to the psychological and then to the experimental stage. Due to these innovations Indian novels are getting recognition all over the world. The themes of loneliness, isolation are recurrent themes in Indian fiction. Writers from Mulk Raj Anand to Arundhati Roy all have dealt with the various aspects of this theme. But in the postmodern context these themes have been dealt with new dimension especially in the hands of innovative experimental writers like Anita Desai. It has become more complex. To deal with these characters is a challenge and Anita Desai uses different fictional techniques to bring out their situation.

Keywords- Fiction, formatting, imitative, recurrent, postmodern

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1904096
Page Number(s) - 538-540
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 4 | December 2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -    http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.22905
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  M. A. Gaikwad,  S. A. Gaikwad,   "Quest For Identity In The Fiction Of Anita Desai", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 4, pp.538-540, December 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1904096.pdf