Anita Desai's Fire On The Mountain

Anita Desai, a recipient of many literary awards in India and abroad, and a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology sine 1993, in addition to being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London and Honorary fellow of the University of Cambridge, has proved herslef to be a major Indian novelist of the post-seventies India, whose novels epitomize the emerging women's search for self-hood in the Indian context.
About Author :
Dr. Rama Kundu is a full professor of English. She has been teaching in the Posgraduate Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal, since 1976. She is the author of three books; Vision and Design in Hardy's Fiction, Wrestling with God: Studies in English Devotional Poetry, and a Bengali book Anandamath O Sampradaikta on Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay.
Contents :
General Preface Introduction Fire on the Mountain: The Text Critical Summary of the Text Themes Characters Images and Symbols Narrative Technique Teh Novel as Feminist Discourse Sample Questions Bibliography