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    A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight"
    A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight"
    A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight"
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    A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight"

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    A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535823814
    A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight"

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      A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight" - Gale

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      Games at Twilight

      Anita Desai

      1978

      Introduction

      Anita Desai is one of the best-known modern writers from India and one of the founders of Indo-Anglian fiction, fiction written in English by natives of India. Indo-Anglian fiction predates Indian independence in 1947, but women novelists like Desai came to the fore during the decades afterward as women's roles were changing and the country was modernizing. Her early novels, such as Cry, the Peacock (1963), helped illuminate this process by showing what had previously been socially unimportant: the psychological struggles of women to become individuals. Desai gradually broadened her focus to create the inner portraits of whole families who grew up in India's modern cities, detailing their difficult adjustments to postcolonial life. Her fiction has been hailed as a turning point in Indian literature for delving into psychological territory.

      Desai began her career as a writer by publishing short stories in newspapers and journals. She collected two decades' worth of work in Games at Twilight (1978). Her short stories contain some of the same themes and techniques as her longer works, so they are a good introduction to Desai's lyric, symbolic prose and her psychological insight into character. Alienation, the search for identity, the fragmentation of city life, and self-understanding are themes touched on in the title story of the collection, Games at Twilight, as well as in Desai's novels. Games at Twilight is available in a Penguin paperback (1982).

      Author Biography

      Desai was born in Mussoorie, near Delhi, on June 24, 1937, of a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman father, D. N. Mazumdar. Although she grew up speaking German with her family of three siblings, she spoke Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and English as well. At school she studied and wrote creatively in English from the age of seven and published in children's magazines. She attended Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and Miranda House at Delhi University; she graduated with a B.A. in English literature in 1957. In 1958 she married Ashvin Desai, a businessman. They had four children, including Kiran Desai, who is also a novelist.

      Desai later separated from her husband

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