Bye Bye Blackbird Anita Desai, Used (12 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. CA3 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Stated first American edition. A tight, clean, sound copy in orange paper covered boards quarter bound in gray cloth with silver lettering on the spine and silver lettering and graphics on the front with very minor overall shelf wear plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of some fading along the spine plus there is a library label on the back plus the endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel that evokes spiritual India in all its complexity and examines the nature of pilgrimage through the aspirations and adventures of two visiting Europeans and an Egyptian expatriot living in India. Two of the author's novels were short-listed for the Booker Prize and "In Custody" has been made into a Merchant Ivory film. By the author of "Cry, the Peacock," "Voices in the City," "Bye-Bye, Blackbird," "Village by the Sea," "In Custody," and "Baumgartner's Bombay." 312p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Voice and vision of Nayantara Sahgal as reflected in her novels/Harin Majithia. 2. Beyond cultural bounds women's plight in Anita Desai's fasting feasting/Fatima Sugarwala. 3. Use and abuse in familial relationships as depicted by Anita Desai in fasting feasting/Sima Gida. 4. The unpleasant and unbearable consequences of inter racial marriage in Anita Desai's Bye Bye Blackbird/Bipin R. Parmar. 5. Feminism in Shashi Deshpande's Roots and Shadows/Krishna Daiya. 6. Gita Mehta's A River Sutra a voyage from Siva's Anutava and Siva Tattva to Paramsiva/Nidhi Tiwari. 7. Enchantment and non enchantment with England in Anita Desa's Bye Bye Blackbird/Nayan D. Tank. 8. Thematic concerns in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust/Twinkle B. Manavar. 9. The Namesake account of a name looking for its bearer/Suchita Joshi. 10. The female characters in The God of Small Things and their struggle for existence/Chetan Upadhyay. Index. Indian women novelists in English edited by Prof. P.D. Bheda is a unique collection of critical essays on Nayantara Sahgal Anita Desai Gita Mehta Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Jhumpa Lahiri. The present book comprising critical essays by eminent scholars is a pioneering attempt at the critical evaluation of the novels of women novelists writing in English. An attempt has been made to study various aspects of leading women novelists writing in English. This book will be useful for those who wish to study Indian women novelists in English. 134 pp.

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Contents Preface 1 Alienation and isolation in Anita Desais cry the peacockArvind M Nawale 2 Portrayal of Maya as distressed self in Anita Desais cry the peacockP Kiruthika and J Sakthi Kumaar 3 Trappings of the mind a psychoanalytic exploration of the neurotic psyche in Anita Desais Cry the peacockG Rajeev 4 Quest for feminine identity in Anita Desais voices in the cityT Sasikanth Reddy 5 Survival instinct in Anita Desais bye-bye blackbird and fire on the mountainBeena V Rathi 6 Narrative through foils in bye bye blackbirdP Roopana 7 Interior voyage of sita in Anita Desais where shall we go this summerR Manjushree 8 Inner violence and repression in fire on the mountain tension and subjugation of the female society of post Independence and quest for identityRima Namhata and Aritra Das 9 Time as the fourth dimension in human existence a study of Anita Desais clear light of the dayMM Dhalayat and SM Chillur 10 Endeavour against odds the village by the seaDalvir Singh Gahlawat 11 Exploration of male psyche in Anita Desais in custodyAnju Bala Agrawal 12 Anita Desais in custody a dialectics on existentialismSophia Jaychandran 13 Contesting the grand narrative a postmodernist reading of Anita Desais in custodySubhajit Bhadra 14 Jeopardy of traumatic histories in Anita Desais Baumgartners BombayM Preetha 15 Transcendentalism in Anita Desais fasting feastingVishwanath Bite 16 Entrapment of major characters in Anita Desais Fasting FeastingMothe Prashant Subhash 17 Human relations and inner Turmoil as reflected in Anita Desais short story collection Diamond dustUrmi Satyan 18 Study of Anita Desais the zigzag wayMF Patel 19 Feminism in Anita Desais novelsPawar Balasaheb G 20 Modernism in Indian English short fiction the case of Anita DesaiMG Hegde This book is an amalgamation of ideas submissions deliberations and elucidations on the themes motifs and symbols in her works Apart from this the volume is also an assortment of the various techniques employed by Desai and validating its handling in order to convey the core of the concerned works Apart from this the volume is also an assortment of the various techniques employed by Desai and validating its handling in order to convey the core of the concerned works The research papers featuring in this volume corroborate that Anita Desais interests rest in discovering the innermost recesses of the human mind The entrapment that the characters are subjected to dominates her works The scholarly essays expound this predicament The critical essays have been circumspectly chosen and are crucial in the understanding the fiction of Anita Desai As an outstanding woman novelist she has touched upon profound issues The book will be instrumental to all those who wish to explore the fictional world  depicted by her This book would certainly be hailed not only by scholars but also by readers with astute interest in this sphere as it presents an in-depth study of themes and techniques of Anita Desais almost all fictional works right from her first novel cry the peacock to recent one the zig zag way jacket 230 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Women in the novels of Kamala Markandaya/Jaya Srivastava. 2. Decoding the forbidden erotic landscapes a study of Kamala Markandaya's novels/Sudhir K. Arora. 3. Some novels of Kamala Markandaya a critical overview/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 4. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The Nature of Passion/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 5. Choreographing complexities narrative structural strategies in Anita Desai's fictions/Purnendu S. Goswami. 6. Racial discrimination and cultural dominance in Anita Desai's Bye Bye Blackbird/Ashok Chaskar. 7. Spiritual quest in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and Anita Desai's Journey to Ithaca a study in comparative perspective/Shri. Bhambar S.B. 8. Gender discrimination in Roots and Shadows a critical study/Amar Nath Prasad. 9. Postmodern feminist writers a study of selected works of Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan/W.S. Kottiswari. 10. Women on the uncertain cusp of nature and culture in the works of Mahashweta Devi/Pallavi Mishra. 11. The feminine sensibility in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/Indu Swami. 12. Social web and cry of the self a critical analysis of Manju Kapur's A Married Woman/Ashok Kumar. 13. Feminist consciousness in Manju Kapur's novels/Shilpi Rishi Srivastava. 14. Marriage of educated women in Manju Kapur's A Married Woman/Murali Manohar. 15. Second thought over feminine chastity in Shobha De's Second Thoughts/Sheetal Y. Thakore. 16. Bama the apostle of Dalit feminism in India/Shibu Simon and Sarojini Sudha. 17. Shakuntala plight of an oppressed woman/Sharika Srivastava. 18. Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss a search for home/Shilpi Rishi Srivastava and Sarika Srivastava. 19. Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss a study of exile and displacement/Santwana Haldar. 20. Reflective moods in The Inheritance of Loss/Shaleen Kumar Singh. Index. New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English Vol. IV is a collection of twenty critical papers concerning the chief Indian women novelists in English language. It evaluates the various aspects of the writings of the novelists like Kamala Markandaya Ruth Parawer Jhabvala Anita Desai Shashi Deshpande Gita Hariharan Mahasweta Devi Arundhati Roy Manju Kapur Shobha De Bama Namita Gokhale and Kiran Desai. All the articles included in this volume are very informative scholarly and comprehensive and they will be very helpful to all those students and research scholars who want to extend their knowledge about the aforesaid women novelists. The book will find a warm reception in the hands of the teachers and research scholars of English literature who want to be more conversant with the critical elucidations and explorations of the works of the aforesaid writers. 289 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. Foreword. 1. Humanism secularism and tolerance in Indian women's poetry in English/Seemin Hasan. 2. Empowerment of women/Renu Kumari Singh. 3. Tarabai Shinde's Stri Purush Tulana a treatise on women's suffering/Shailaja B. Wadikar. 4. Toru Dutt's Our Casuarina Tree an example of poetic excellence/Amar Nath Prasad. 5. Poetry of revolt against marginalisation of matriarchal section in India a thematic study of Kamala Das's poetry in feminist perspective/R.K. Mishra. 6. Rukmani as an epitome of Indian womanhood a critical consideration of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve/S. John Peter Joseph. 7. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Get Ready for Battle/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 8. Reconstructing Indian female identity in Nayantara Sahgal's The Day in Shadow and Anita Desai's Voices in the City/A.A. Khan. 9. Study of human relationships in Anita Desai's Cry the Peacock and Bye Bye Blackbird/Sumedha Bhandari. 10. Anita Desai's Recent Novels/Anita Singh. 11. Spiritual quest in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and Anita Desai's Journey to Ithaca a study in comparative perspective/S.B. Bhambar. 12. Feminine consciousness in the writings of Shashi Deshpande and Mahesh Dattani/Pramod Kumar Singh. 13. The discourse of postcolonial resistance a study of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/Jaydeep Sarangi. 14. Social historical and psychological realism in The God of Small Things/Amar Nath Prasad. 15. Feminist rage and deconstruction of Phallogocentric symbolic order in Manju Kapur's Home/Prakash Chandra Pradhan. 16. Women in Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss/M.B. Gaijan. 17. Critical perspectives on Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Sheetal Y. Thakore. Index. Indian women writers have created so many milestones in the field of literature in particular and in other fields of human knowledge in general. They have become today the centre of critical attention everywhere. This book which is an anthology of critical research paper contributed by different scholars hailing from the different parts of India is a modest attempt to discuss critically the various literary non literary and to some extent even some untouched and unnoticed shades of women writings. The book will certainly get a warm reception in the hands of both the students and teachers. It will also prove to be helpful for all those readers and research scholars who want to be more familiar with the various aspects of the works of the aforesaid women writers. 238 pp.

Contents Preface 1 The inner conflicts and confrontations in the novels of Anita DesaiAmar Nath Prasad 2 Fictionalization of existential predicament of Indian women a thematic study of Anita Desais NovelsRK Mishra 3 Exploration of feminine psyche in Anita Desais NovelsAnju Bala Agrawal 4 The quest for identity reality and spirituality in the Novels of Anita DesaiUsha Garg 5 Homeostasis world of delusion in the Novels of Anita DesaiMeenu Dubey 6 Anita Desais short fictionK Sandhya and Kanchana Sundaram 7 Major thematic concerns in the Novels of Anita DesaiMF Patel 8 The feminine consciousness in cry the peacockTS Ramesh 9 The lonely voyage a study of feminine psyche in cry The peacock and the dark holds no terrorsBR Agrawal and Ravi Jauhari 10 Feminist consciousness in Anita Desais cry the peacock and where shall we go this summerRuby Milhoutra 11 Alienation in Anita Desais cry the peacockRam Sharma 12 Where shall we go this summer A case study of subjective explorationCU Kulkarni 13 Cultural rootlessness in Anita Desais bye bye blackbirdAshok Chaskar 14 Voices in the city a tour de horizon of existentialist philosophyGajendra Kumar 15 Adept at adapting a portrait of childhood in Anita Desais The Village by the SeaLakshmi Sistla 16 Fire on the mountain an existential studyVipin Kumar Pandey 17 Anita Desais fire on the mountain a study in passive feminismAshok Kumar 18 Anita Desais journey to Ithaca a manifestation of the wisdom of oriental philosophySB Bhambar 19 Theme of partition in Anita Desais clear light of dayNoorani SI Index Anita Desai The Novelist Par Excellence is a modest attempt to evaluate critically the various aspects of the novels of Anita Desai The book includes critical research papers of different scholars hailing from the different parts of India The papers are critical observations on the various novels of Anita Desai ie cry the Peacock where shall we go this summer bye bye blackbird voices in the city The village by the sea fire on the mountain journey to Ithaca clear light of day etc Some other papers also deal with the existential predicament of Indian women feminine psyche the quest for identity world of delusion and the major thematic concerns in the novels of Anita Desai jacket 225 pp.