Abstract
Ruth Jhabvala’s latest Western-based fiction continues to develop the themes that have always concerned her as an artist. In the new setting they emerge differently, newly tailored to use the new material, as it were, yet recognisable products of the same artistic imagination. Again, she marks the clashes of generations; again, she examines her characters’ paradoxical compulsions to love those who are indifferent; again, she portrays unscrupulous gurus and naive (mostly female) disciples. I have already mentioned the new focus, perhaps reflecting the realities of the new setting, on the relationships of male homosexuals with each other and with the women who love them.
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Notes
Adrienne Rich, ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’, in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983) pp. 177–205; see esp. p. 192.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, ‘Myself in India’, in An Experience of India (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971) pp. 12–13.
Stella Dong, ‘Publishers’ Weekly Interviews Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’, in Publishers’ Weekly, 6 June 1986, pp. 54–5.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, ‘Disinheritance’, Blackwood’s Magazine, April 1979.
See, for example, Helen Epstein, Children of Survivors: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors (New York: Putnam, 1979) 204–9.
Bernard Weinraub, ‘The Artistry of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’, New York Times Magazine, 11 September 1983, p. 112.
See, for example, Barbara McDonald and Cynthia Rich, Look Me in the Eye (San Francisco, Cal.: Spinsters Ink, 1983).
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Sucher, L. (1989). Difficult Adjustments: Three Stories. In: The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20239-3_8
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