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    Post Colonial Impact on Urdu Language Lovers in Anita Desai’s In Custody Dr.A.CHANDRA BOSE‚ PhD.‚ Assistant Professor of English The Madura College (Autonomous) Madurai‚ Tamilnadu -625 011 boseac@gmail.com Introduction Anita Desai is an important women novelist in the firmament of Indian fiction in English. She unfolds lot of complex things for example‚ struggles of innocents‚ problems of human relationship and decay of Urdu language

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    CONGUGAL CACAPHONY IN ANITA DESAI’S NOVELS Suneeta Upadhyay‚ Research Scholar M.M.H. college‚ Ghaziabad‚ C.C.S. University‚ Meerut Indian novelist and short story writer‚ Anita Desai is specially noted for her insightful depiction of the inner life of the female characters in her writings. In most of her novels Anita Desai dwells on the themes incongruity‚ incertitude and hazards of human relationship particularly the man-woman relationship. D.H. Lawrence points out: The great relationship

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    EXISTENTIALIST FOCUS ON PROTAGONIST SITA - ANITA DESAI’S -WHERE SHALL WE GO THIS SUMMER ? The protagonist herself has an existential entity. Desai‚ has presented an intense identity crisis of the central character Sita‚ a sensitive woman in her late forties.Existentialism’ is a difficult term to define and an odd movement as many feel‚ but it not totally impossible to define. ‘Existentialists’‚ tend to take freedom of the will‚ the human power to do or not do‚ as absolutely obvious. Only now

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    identities. Post-colonial literature can be considered as a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial writers focus on issues such as de-colonization and the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. However post-colonial literature cannot be described only by the definition above‚ many other issues have to be considered in order to fully understand post-colonial texts. In order to understand post-colonial texts‚ one

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    "This is a novel about a small-town man‚ Deven‚ who gets the opportunity to go interview his hero‚ the great poet Nur‚ the greatest living Urdu poet. Having always loved Urdu poetry and missed the chance to be an Urdu language professor‚ he is charmed into going to Delhi the big city. Even though he shrinks at the idea of possibly being exploited by his sharp and selfish friend Murad‚ the dream of meeting Nur draws him on. So he sets off on a number of adventures on Sundays‚ the one free

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    Post-Colonial Literature Not losing one’s sense of identification/culture with the colonizer’s culture Language itself engages in the creation of an ‘other’ with inferior connotations/associations; terms like “vernacular” or “native”. Travel histories/writing creates notions and myths about other cultures and civilization. History and a sense of civilization comes in only with the influence of the colonizers. Justification of the empire brought forth as a civilizing mission – a creation of

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    to any society‚ especially America. When the first colonies were formed‚ each had a very distant environment because of their separation. Each environment influenced their economies and social structures. According to Olsen’s lecture on Life in Colonial Times‚ the southern colonies had warm weather and enough rain for a very long crop season. In turn‚ they had many slaves (so many that the whites were outnumbered) and a completely different society than the north. The northern colonies had long

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    Post-colonial Theory What it is: • the study of interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized; • an examination of the impact of the European conquest‚ colonisation and domination of non-European lands‚ peoples‚ and cultures; • an analysis of the inherent ideas of European superiority over non-European peoples and cultures; • an analysis of the role of representation in installing and perpetuating such notions. From the point of view of colonised

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    In the novel The Village By the Sea‚ the author Anita Desai effectively conveys the protagonists Hari and Lila facing and overcoming change in a traditional culture through the experiences they surpass. The use of various techniques including imagery‚ juxtaposition and foreshadowing embody the significance to adapting to change‚ to stay strong and the importance of kindness. This assists in informing the reader of change through the families experiences in the novel. A constant theme displayed

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    Post Colonialism Theory To understand the post colonialism theory‚ I believe that we must first take a brief look at how we got here. In order to reach the post era‚ we first must walk through the challenges and lessons of those before us. How else would the history that we have to teach us today be there‚ how else would we have the literature to educate us? Colonialism was all about the newer‚ bigger‚ better lands and though these lands had natives already‚ they were just another obstacle. They

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