“YIN-YANG” BINARIES OF DUALITY IN ANITA DESAI’S CRY THE PEACOCK

Abstract

Anita Desai’s Cry the Peacock is among the early novels that herald the development of psychological fiction in India. The work reveals the inner-world of Maya and revolves around events and experiences that ultimately lead her to murder her husband, Gautama. Maya has been severely scrutinised as a neurotic in a psychoanalytic light. This research paper attempts to associate “Maya and Gautama” as an inseparable union of “Yin-Yang”.