G. V. Desani

Authors

Paul Sharrad, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

105658

Publication Details

Sharrad, P. "G. V. Desani." The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The World Novel in English to 1950. 1 ed. Ed.R. Crane, J. Stafford & M. Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 380-386. 2016

Abstract

Surveys Desani's writing, his complex diasporic story, and his language play, claiming the novel 'All About H. Hatterr' as a disregarded classic of postcolonial fiction that follows Sterne and influences Rushdie.