Analysis Of Anita Rau Badami

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Anita Rau Badami was one of the Indo Canadians or Indian Canadians are Canadian citizens whose heritage was fully or partially South Asian children of persons who immigrated from India and or South Asia to Canada or persons of Indian South Asian origin who have Canadian Citizenship. Anita Rau Badami was a writer in whom one can find the combination of an artist and a missionary. A major development in modern Indian fiction had been the growth of a feminist or women. This approach projects the experience from the view point of feminine consciousness and sensibility. Feminism assumes that women experience the world differently from men, and write out of their different perspective. The emergence of women writers across the culture forms a significant …show more content…

Though varied in cultural they share a deep interest in evolving female culture and liberation of women. Our thesis mainly focused on her one of the novel “The hero’s walk” which mainly deals with Diasporic sensibility like “The hero’s walk”, “Tamarind Mem” And “Can You Hear the Night Bird Cell?” Written by her also deals with the same theme of Diasporic sensibility “Tamarind Mem” (1997) grew out of her university thesis. Her novels deal with the complexities of Indian family life and with the split that emerges when Indian move to the west. Her first novel “Tamarind Mem” deal with pungent sugary home sickness of her Indian sensibility portraying her memories of her past days, depicting the descriptions of Indian domestic life. Her second novel “The Hero’s Walk” could be the best illustration to her alien feeling which was clod in a fine garb of refinement. And also she has portrayed the clash between the cultural of East and west. She attempts to explore the nuances of Diasporic consciousness by the quait portrayal of woman characters. Badami’s third novel “Can You Hear the Night Bird Call?” Explores the golden Temple slaughter and the Air India Bombing was set against the back drop of Punjab division “Can You Hear the Night Bird Call?” Could be branded as a historical novel, as the plot conveniently moves between India and Canada in 1947. It tries to explore the

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