Unhomely Homes: Cultural Dislocation and Feminist Agency in "The Rooftop Dwellers" and "Winterscape"

Abstract

Anita Desai’s fiction for a very long time has been best known for her unshakable focus on psychological landscapes  of women keeping track of their personal and cultural transitions. Scholars often appreciate and refer to her narrative style, her interior quality of calmness and control, are a bridge to her themes of gender, displacement, and identity. (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2015) recognizes the protagonist of Desai’s work as, a women experiencing a range of emotions and battling inner conflicts, remains silent not because they feel weak but because they choose silence to maintain the dignity and following the norms formed by the society.