Alexandra Barley
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Barley plays a role.
Article
2007 Home as sanctuary: Stories of secrets and sadness in Fire on the Mountain and The Blue Bedspread Power and Narrative, Lau, Lisa and Shari Daya (eds.), pp. 119–139 | Article
This article explores the idea of home as a space of sanctuary and retreat from the problems of domestic life through the novels of Anita Desai and Raj Kamal Jha. I examine how these novels destabilise discourses of gender, home and family. Both novels demonstrate the relationship between narrative… read more