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Extraordinary Energy of Visualization in Depicting the Psychological Depth of Women Characters in Anita Desai's Novels - Cry, the Peacock and Voices in the City


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1 Arts College for Women, Salem, India
 

In her novels, Desai portrays the neurotic mind of her women who encounter afflictions and in their marital and domestic life. Anita Desai is one of those few Indian novelists who represent the welcome 'creative release of the feminine sensibility' which began to emerge perceptibly on the literary horizon after the second world war. She tries to introduce a neo- psychological vein and projects a sensibility generally not encountered with other Indo-Anglican writers of fiction through the art of characterization which is the focus of this paper.

Keywords

Claustrophobia, Dialogics, Patriarchy, Psychoanalytic Method, Self-Alienation, Self-Identification, Stream of Consciousness, Subaltern.
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  • Extraordinary Energy of Visualization in Depicting the Psychological Depth of Women Characters in Anita Desai's Novels - Cry, the Peacock and Voices in the City

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K. Sujatha Malini
Arts College for Women, Salem, India

Abstract


In her novels, Desai portrays the neurotic mind of her women who encounter afflictions and in their marital and domestic life. Anita Desai is one of those few Indian novelists who represent the welcome 'creative release of the feminine sensibility' which began to emerge perceptibly on the literary horizon after the second world war. She tries to introduce a neo- psychological vein and projects a sensibility generally not encountered with other Indo-Anglican writers of fiction through the art of characterization which is the focus of this paper.

Keywords


Claustrophobia, Dialogics, Patriarchy, Psychoanalytic Method, Self-Alienation, Self-Identification, Stream of Consciousness, Subaltern.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15613/hijrh%2F2015%2Fv2i1%2F78204