Chutneyfication' at its most inane; Author unable to problematize a potentially complex situation Final Edition

If the title of Yasmin Ladha's book inevitably, and perhaps deliberately, echoes that of Bharati Mukherjee's book The Tiger's Daughter, Ladha's writing skills are certainly not modeled after that decidedly superior writer. Incidentally, the "magicians" for whom Ladha ex...

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Published inEdmonton journal
Main Author Sen-Bagchee, Sumana
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Edmonton, Alta Postmedia Network Inc 29.08.1993
Subjects
Noncitizens
Race relations
Writers
Edmonton
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Summary:If the title of Yasmin Ladha's book inevitably, and perhaps deliberately, echoes that of Bharati Mukherjee's book The Tiger's Daughter, Ladha's writing skills are certainly not modeled after that decidedly superior writer. Incidentally, the "magicians" for whom Ladha expresses contempt are later identified in the context as Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureshi, arch-proponents and competent users of the same "chutneyfied" style that she so clumsily displays in her stories. While Ladha has the daring to bring in a mixed-race protagonist into the conservative setting of a wealthy Indian family, and more so, in the essentially segregated social setting of Tanzania, she could not take it any further.
ISSN:0839-296X