Indian Female Identities, between Hindu Patriarchy and Western Missionary Models in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting and Clear Light of Day
The paper compares and contrasts several of Anita Desai’s female characters who experience the transcendent urge to restructure their familiar cultural models along Western parameters. Whether engaged in migration or experiencing a static existence in India, Uma (Fasting, Feasting), Bim and Tara...
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Bucharest University Press
2015-12-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ElenaStoican-1.pdf |