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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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449850903478197 |
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 |
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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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