A Descent down the Ladder of Time in Anita Desai’s The Zigzag Way
This paper studies Anita Desai’s experimental sleight of hand in The Zigzag Way and explores how new ideas erupt from old yarns as the immigrant-protagonist absorbs the mysteries of an older world, enriches his territory in the New World by mining the graveyard of history, and stakes his claim by le...
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Μορφή: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Γλώσσα: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | This paper studies Anita Desai’s experimental sleight of hand in The Zigzag Way and explores how new ideas erupt from old yarns as the immigrant-protagonist absorbs the mysteries of an older world, enriches his territory in the New World by mining the graveyard of history, and stakes his claim by letting the New World Encounter influence, take over and transform his world. This study shall reveal how the novel’s fictional space re-captures the dilemmas and the nostalgia of immigrant experiences and shows how the descent down the “ladder of time” helps the protagonists discover that everyone comes from somewhere else. |
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