The Woman and the Animal in Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock.
This paper looks at the affinity between women and animals through a lens of material postcolonial ecofeminism. Anita Desai's novel Cry, the Peacock provides an opportunity to re-think some of the postcolonial issues espoused in the fiction of male writers through a gendered perspective while simult...
| Publicado en: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 1035 - 1047 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
2018
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