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The Holocaust in the Nursery: Anita Desai’s 'Baumgartner’s Bombay'

Stähler, Axel (2010) The Holocaust in the Nursery: Anita Desai’s 'Baumgartner’s Bombay'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 46 (1). pp. 76-88. ISSN 1744-9855. (doi:10.1080/17449850903478197) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:23689)

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Abstract

With particular attention to Anita Desai’s use of German nursery rhymes and children’s songs, this article offers a reading of the Holocaust narrative in her novel Baumgartner’s Bombay in relation to interpretive expectations informed by discourses of the Holocaust and postcolonialism and to the appropriation of the novel to one or the other of these paradigms. It suggests that the novel transcends such interpretive patterns by structurally engaging the reader’s participation in the creation of meaning.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/17449850903478197
Uncontrolled keywords: Anita Desai, Baumgartner’s Bombay , Holocaust, nursery rhymes, language, narrative techniques
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN441 Literary History
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN80 Criticism
P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Axel Staehler
Date Deposited: 12 Jul 2010 17:00 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:02 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/23689 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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