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Volume : I, Issue : IV, May - 2011 The Private Fantasies of Alienated-Married Women in Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer And Journey To Ithaca J. Santhosh Priyaa DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The deep-rooted agonised psyche of womanhood was brought to the lime–light
by Anita Desai, in her literary blooms. Especially in married women, the
transplantation takes place on three levels viz: physical, mental and spiritual. They
are torn between the memories of the past and the realities of the present. With the
boom of an unpleasant and an unacceptable situation, nostalgic feelings get stirred
up. There is a pattern, which frames her novel with the conflict between manwoman
relationships that inevitably leads to alienation. Indu Bhadran says,
“Her main concern is with the psychic reverberations of the characters who are
caught in an existential anguish, obsessed with the past memories and nostalgic
feelings, shunning reality, struggling to cope with a society in transition and
terribly alienated” (Sinha 106). Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : J. Santhosh Priyaa, (2011). The Private Fantasies of Alienated-Married Women in Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer And Journey To Ithaca. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. IV, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/164.pdf References : - Baral, K. C. Sigmund Freud: A Study of His Theory of Art and Literature. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1995. Print.
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