Quest for Self Identity in Anita Desai's Two Novels

ISBN-13: 9783659376665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 64 str.

Sood Vivek

Opis

The focus f this study in the proceeding chapters has been on the quest pattern of the heroines in Anita Desais two novels. This study can claim a unique stance in that it has attempted a study of the mystique of the feminine, using concepts which have imparted a new dimension to the analysis of female character. Desais heroines emblematise an individuality which is unmistakably the creation of a skilled artist. In both the novels Desai is concerned with a world where everywhere the corpses will be unambiguously of the hypersensitive, over-reactive feminine. It is important to state that Desais heroines are much taller shoulders high than the stereotyped, run-of-the-mill elementary feminine. Fulfilment of the quest for self is not the final journey of every protagonist. It is rather that point of completion which stirs activity in a person who is often visited by psychic inadequacy. Quest thus connects him with that vital fulcrum which is ever going and ever renewing process. Quest is not a charted course where every quester may find familiar steps. Rather, every quester has to move into the unfamiliar.

O autorze

VIVEK SOODVivek Sood , born 1967 in Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh, is working as Associate Professor in a Govt. of HP institute and is also an artist and member Lalit Kaka Academy, New Delhi. He has lived all his life in the verdant Kangra Valley and his work, have been published in National and International Journals.