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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Chakravarty, Radha. “Figuring the Maternal: ‘Freedom’ and ‘Responsibility’ in Anita Desai's Novels.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 29, no. 2 (April 1998): 75-92.

Chakravarty examines the maternal tropes of Where Shall We Go This Summer?, Clear Light of Day, and Journey to Ithaca in terms of the novels's thematic concerns with the relationship between freedom and responsibility.

Choudhury, Bidulata. “Anita Desai: The Growth and Development of the Artist.” In Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai, pp. 37-53. New Delhi, India: Creative Books, 1995.

Choudhury provides an overview of Desai's life and career, tracing thematic similarities between Desai's short stories and novels.

Desai, Anita, and Olga Kenyon. “Anita Desai.” In The Writer's Imagination, pp. 35-43. West Yorkshire, UK: University of...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Seema Jena (essay date 1989)
   2. Bharati A. Parikh (essay date summer 1993)
   3. Pippa Brush (essay date 1996)
   4. Minoli Salgado (essay date summer 1996)
   5. Rajeswari Mohan (essay date 1997)
   6. Uma Parameswaran (review date winter 1997)
   7. Katharine Capshaw Smith (essay date April 1997)
   8. Tony Simoes da Silva (essay date July 1997)
   9. Gabriele Annan (review date 27 May 1999)
   10. Shirley Chew (review date 28 May 1999)
   11. Frederick Luis Aldama (review date winter 2000)
   12. Sarah Curtis (review date 26 May 2000)
   13. Shyamala A. Narayan (review date winter 2001)
   14. Robin Gerster (review date 12 January 2002)
   15. Cindy Lacom (essay date fall 2002)
4. Further Reading
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