Selected Literary References

Google Scholar collates and publishes hundreds of references and citations on Desani and his writings. Some of the references below are undoubtedly duplicated by Google's data robot.
  • "Language of the nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy", Neelam Srivastava, freelibrary.com, 2005.
  • "Formative Influences on Sir Salman Rushdie" (excerpt), Prabha Parmar, Language in India, Vol. 10, 2010.
  • Depak Singh Badal, Literarism blogspot, All About H. Hatterr: G.V. Desani.
  • "Joshi, Arun", Mallikarjun Patil, Encyclopaedia of Literature in English, M.K. Bhatnager, editor. Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2001. Reference.
  • "More than 'priestly mumbo-jumbo': religion and authorship in All About H. Hatterr", Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Amardeep Singh, 2010. Essay.
  • "Rogues of Modernity", Ian Almond, Wiley Online Library. Reference.
  • "Raja Rao and Arundhiti Roy's Indianization of English in Their Fiction", The Fiction of Raja Rao, Rajeshwar Mittapalli and Pier Paolo Piciucco, editors, Atlantic Publishers, Delhi, 2001. Reference.
  • "Style Range in New English Literatures", Ann Lowry, The Other Tongue, English across Cultures, Braj B. Kachru, editor. University of Illinois, 1982. Reference.
  • "The Method in the Madness: A Thematic Analysis of All About H. Hatterr", M.K. Naik. Perspectives on Indian Fiction in English, M.K. Naik, editor. Hans Raj Gupta & Sons, New Delhi, 1985.
  • Indian English Novel in the Nineties, Sheobhushan Skhkla and Anu Shukla, editors, 2002. Reference.
  • "Recent Indian Fiction in English: An Overview", Sunanda Mongia, 1997. Reference.
  • "Intertexts: Hatterr and Trotter", The Indian English Novel, Priyamvada Gopal. Part of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures.
  • "Towards a Decolonized English: South Asian Creativity in Fiction", World Englishes, Wimal Dissanayake, Feb., 2007. Reference.
  • The Master's Language and its Indian Uses, Christian Mair, editor. Reference.
  • A note on G.V. Desani's All about H. Hatterr and Hali, Russell, Peter and Singh, Khushwant (eds.), London, 1952. (Comments and summarizes discussion of All About H. Hatterr and Hali.)
  • Writing black Britain 1948-1998: An interdisciplinary anthology. Excerpts of All About H. Hatterr.
  • Perspectives on Indian Fiction in English, M.K. Naik editor. Reference.
  • Indian Literature,"Desai Versus Desani: Norms of Appreciation", Raja Narasimha, July-December, 1973, Vol. XVI, (Nos. 283).
  • The Second Writers Workshop Literary Reader, P. Lal (ed.), "G.V. Desani", S.V. Vasudev, Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1973.
  • Studies in Modern Indian Fiction in English, Vol. 2, H.M. Williams, Chapter VI, "Govind Desani and Others", Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1973, (pp. 17).
  • World Literature Written in English, "Dialogue in G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr", Prof. D.M. Bujorjee (Montgomery College) in Vol. 13, No. 2., University of Texas at Arlington, 1974.
  • Themes in Indo-Anglian Literature, M.D. Melwani, Chapter 21, "Introducing G.V. Desani's Work", (p. 100), Prakesh Book Depot, Bareilly, 1977.
  • "Novel as Gesture or What Has G.V. Desani in Common with Heller, Shakespeare, Freud, Defoe, Hopkins ...", S.C. Harrex, the Flanders University of South Australia (paper read at Jawaharlal University, New Delhi, January, 1977, ACLAL Conference).
  • "G.V. Desani's Hali", paper read at ACLAL Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January, 1977, by K.S. Ramamurti (Truchy).
  • Considerations, M. Mukherjee (ed.), Chapter 8, "The Strangeness of G.V. Desani", by R. Narasimhan, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1977.
  • The Fire and the Offering: The English Language Novel of India, 1935-1970, Vol. II, S.C. Harrex, Chapter VI, "G.V. Desani: Mad Hatterr Sage", pp. 37, Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1978.
  • The Critical Response, "The Counterfeit Hero: Desani's Hatterr and Naipaul's Ralph Sing", D. Raghuacharyulu, pp.27?137, MacMillan, Madras, 1980.
  • Modern Indian Fiction, an episode in, All About H. Hatterr (pp. 15), Profs. Shahane and S. Cowasji (University of Regina), Vikas, Delhi, 1981.
  • G.V. Desani, Writer and Worldview, M. Ramanujan, Arnold-Heinemann, Delhi, (pp. 172), 1984.
  • Dimensions of Indian English Literature, M.K. Naik, Chapter 11, "Colonial Experience in All About H. Hatterr, (pp. 10), Sterling Publishers PVT LTD, New Delhi, 1984.
  • The Literary Criterion, "G.V. Desani: All About H. Hatterr", C.N. Srinath, Mysore, 1985.
  • Studies in Indian Fiction in English, G.S.B. Gupta (ed.), chapter entitled, "All About H. Hatterr: A Philosophical Comedy", JIWE Publications, Gulbargo (India), 1987.  
  • Contemporary Novelists in English, University of New York, Albany. (Includes a summary of All About H. Hatterr by Prof. Parry D. Westbrook.) (No date.)
  • Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction, Chelva Kanaganayakam, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002. Chapter 3, "H. Hatterr and Sauce Anglaise: G.V. Desani", pp. 50-73. Portions available as of this writing at the following link.
  • Introduction, The Vintage Book of Indian Writing: 1947-1997, edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, Vintage, London, 1997.
  • On the far side of baa: Salvaging the Enchanted in All About H. Hatterr, Jan Küveler, Ein Moderner Web site (pp. 24), Columbia University, 2005.
  • A Talent(ed) Digger, Creations, Cameos, and Essays in honour of Anna Rutherford, article entitled, "The Post-Colonial Gesture", Paul Sharrad, Rodopi,  Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA, 1996. Portions available as of this writing at the following link.
  • Re-Introducing All About H. Hatterr, Amardeep Singh, Assistant Professor of English, Lehigh University web site, 2005.
  • Srinivas Aravamudan, Post-colonial affiliations: Ulysses and All About H. Hatterr. Portions of the essay available via Google Books.
  • The Indian Novel in English, Jorg-Dieter Riemenschneider, Muse India, the Literary Journal, 2005.
  • A Thousand Years of the Novel, Namita Gokhale, The Hindu, March, 2001.
  • Wikipedia: G.V. Desani.

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