LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:6 June 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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From an Outsider’s Standpoint:
Review of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Fiction

Dr. J. G. Duresh

Family Suffered under Genocide, Racial Oppression and Displacement

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, an accomplished author and adept screenplay writer, enjoys the most unique renown of obtaining the Booker Prize as well as the Oscar Award twice. Born to Polish Jewish father and German Jewish mother on 7th May 1927 in Cologne in Germany, Jhabvala has borne the brunt of genocide, racial oppression and displacement. Jhabvala’s family was one among the last batch of refugees which fled Nazi regime in 1939 and migrated to England. The family settled in Kendon near London where she pursued her studies. Her father, a lawyer, on the revelation of the horrid fact that forty members of his family had died during the Holocaust, committed suicide. In 1947, she met Cyrus H. Jhabvala, an Indian Parsi architect, entered into wedlock with him and settled in New Delhi. Jhabvala lived in India for twenty four years till her migration to New York in 1975. She died in2013 in New York leaving behind her husband and three daughters.

A Prolific Writer

Jhabvala’s literary career dawned with the publication of her debut novel To Whom She Will in 1955. Being a prolific writer, she brought out several novels and volumes of stories, of which the prominent are: Esmond in India (1958), The House holder (1960), A New Dominion (1972), Heat and Dust (1975), How I Became a Holy Mother and Other Stories (1976) and My Nine Lives : Chapters of a Possible Past (2004). Jhabvala won the prestigious Booker Prize for her novel Heat and Dust in 1975. She has a long standing collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions for which she penned 23 screen plays. Fortunate enough, she secured the Oscar Awards for writing screen play for A Room with a View in 1986 and for Howards End in 1992.

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Dr. J. G. Duresh
Head, Department of English & Centre for Research
Scott Christian College (Autonomous)
Nagercoil-629003
Tamil Nadu
India
jgduresh@rediffmail.com
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