Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day: A Narrative of Postcolonial Writing

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dc.contributor.authorDemirturk, Mehtap
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-25T14:11:26Z
dc.date.available2026-04-25T14:11:26Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentSinop Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractAnita Desai’s Clear Light of Day successfully reflects memory and individual experiences in Indian postcolonial culture and features Desai’s talented portrayal of time as both a devourer and a cure. The narration depends on a time circle to present the continual effects of colonialism on individual and social history. In this novel, the women’s position in Indian culture is examined through a changing perspective toward the general assumptions of Indian gender roles. A complicated evaluation of women’s fights for independence inside a man-dominated system is given by Desai with female characters Bim, Tara, and Aunt Mira. Clear Light of Day both serves as a strong narration and also contributes to the wider postcolonial literary field. Desai encourages her readers to think about the complicated characteristics of cultural identity in a postcolonial culture besides the everlasting impacts of colonialism via the unity of personal experiences with more extensive historical and social conditions. This paper aims to reveal Bhabha’s postcolonial theories such as subaltern, hybridity, mimicry, and third space by investigating Desai’s own multicultural background and Indian history after the Partition as well as the effects of time on the individuals through an analysis of thematic perspectives of colonialism.
dc.identifier.doi10.47777/cankujhss.1476698
dc.identifier.endpage319
dc.identifier.issn1309-6761
dc.identifier.issn3062-0112
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage308
dc.identifier.trdizinid1293194
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1476698
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1293194
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/7860
dc.identifier.volume18
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.institutionauthorDemirturk, Mehtap
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofÇankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_TR_20260420
dc.subjectBeşeri Bilimler
dc.titleAnita Desai’s Clear Light of Day: A Narrative of Postcolonial Writing
dc.typeArticle

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