Further Reading
- 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 Bradford, 1992. (Desai discusses the influence of English language on Indian literature, the Indian feminist movement, Indian literacy, and the relevance of multiculturalism in contemporary Indian society.)
- Harrison, Kathryn. "When Karmas Clash." Washington Post Book World (17 September 1995): 11. (Harrison outlines the plot of Journey to Ithaca, alluding to the spiritual and ethical questions that the novel poses.)
- Inamdar, F. A. "Fetters of Illusion: In Custody." In The Fiction of Anita Desai, edited by R. K. Dhawan, pp. 140-53. New Delhi, India: Bahri, 1989. (Inamdar explores how Desai develops the thematic antithesis between illusion and reality in In Custody through material objects, the characters's tones of voice, and humor.)
- Jain, Jasbir. "The Use of Fantasy in the Novels of Anita Desai." In Explorations on Modern Indo-English Fiction, edited by R. K. Dhawan, pp. 227-37. New Delhi: Bahri Publications Private Limited, 1982. (Explores Desai's utilization of fantasy and its impact on her narrative technique.)
- Kher, Inder Nath. "Madness as Discourse in Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock." Commonwealth Novel in English 5, No. 2 (Fall 1992): 16-23. (Examines the characterization of Maya in Cry, the Peacock, arguing that Desai successfully demonstrates the inaccuracy of the diagnosis of madness imposed on Maya.)
- Krishnaswamy, Shantha. "Anita Desai: The Sexist Nature of Sanity." In her Woman in Indian Fiction in English (1950–80), pp. 236-80. (Argues that Desai's novels "constitute together the documentation, through fiction, of radical female resistance against a patriarchally defined concept of normality.")
- Mani, K. Ratna Shiela. "Irony in Anita Desai's In Custody." In Critical Essays on Anita Desai's Fiction, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, pp. 130-46. New Delhi, India: Ivy Publishing, 2000. (Mani studies how irony characterizes the narration of In Custody, analyzing the effects of the male protagonist and masculine perspective on the novel's style, tone, and humor.)
- Mann, Harveen Sachdeva. "'Going in the Opposite Direction': Feminine Recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the City." Ariel 23, No. 4 (October 1992): 75-95. (Asserts that Voices in the City, which many critics have treated as a man's story with a male protagonist and marginal female supporting characters, is actually "a significant discourse on modern Indian feminism.")
- Nash, Walter. "Other Indias." London Review of Books 10, No. 16 (15 September 1988): 19-20. (Positive review of Baumgartner's Bombay.)
- Parmar, Virender. "Conclusion." In Women in the Novels of Anita Desai: The Archetypes and Patterns of Quest, pp. 171-80. Jalandhar, India: ABS Publications, 2000. (Parmar evaluates the relevance of the representation of the Indian feminine throughout Desai's career within the context of other Indian literature written by women.)
- Riemenschneider, Dieter. "History and the Individual in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." In The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 1980s, edited by Viney Kirpal, pp. 187-99. Bombay: Allied Publishers Limited, 1990. (Compares Desai's and Rushdie's writing styles and their differing methods of relating historical information.)
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