Sign up  Other worlds, other texts: teaching Anita Desai's
'Clear Light of Day' to Canadian students. Postcolonial theory
tends to overlook the wide diversity of Third World societies in
its effort to unite writers from various regions through the use
of the colonizer colonized paradigm. In doing so, this theory
enhances such Third World commonalities as the loss of
traditions and the search for a new identity, while diminishing
the role of issues such as ethnic and religious friction and
economic exploitation. The better way to approach postcolonial
literature may be to emphasize the allusive nature of literary
texts. This approach is illustrated using Anita Desai's 'Clear
Light of Day.'  Indian literature (Criticism and interpretation)
Women authors (Criticism and interpretation) Mukherjee, Arun P.
Pub Date: Named Person: Desai, Anita Accession Number: Full
Text: My teaching of Commonwealth/Third World/Postcolonial/South
Asian/Indian literature is deeply influenced by my consciousness
of my cultural and lin