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KUMAR, SHIV K. "Desai's Games at Twilight: A View": 203-207.
MAINI, DARSHAN SINGH. "Anita Desai's Novels: An Evaluation": 118-137.
PRASAD, MADHUSUDAN. "The Novels of Anita Desai: A Study in Imagery": 54-77.
RAO, A.V. KRISHNA. "Voices in the City: A Study": 162-178.
RAO, RAMACHANDRA B. "Technique in the Novels of Anita Desai": 78-90.
SINGH, BRIJRAJ. "Desai's Clear Light of Day: A Study": 156-161.
VARADY, EVELYN DAMASHEK. "The West Views Anita Desai: American and British
Criticism of Games of Twilight and Other Stories": 194-202.
WEIR, ANN LOWRY. "The Illusions of Maya: Feminine Consciousness in Anita Desai's
Cry, the Peacock": 150-155.
SIVARAMAKRISHNA, M. "From Alienation to Mythic Acceptance: The Ordeal of
Consciousness in Anita Desai's Fiction": 17-30.
SRIVASTAVA, RAMESH K. "Anita Desai at Work: An Interview": 208-26
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TRIPATHI, J.P. The Mind and Art of Anita Desai Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1987,
162pp.
UMA, ALLADI. "'I Have Had my Vision': Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Anita
Desai's Where Shall We Go This Summer" The Literary Criterion 22.3 (1987):73-7.
Examines the search for self realisation by the heroines of these two novels. Although written
50 years apart, their quests and resolutions are the same.
VARADY, EVELYN. "American and British Responses to Anita Desai's Games at Twilight"
Journal of Indian Writing in English 8.1&2 (1980):27-34. Reprinted in SINGH, KIRPAL
ed. Through Different Eyes: Foreign Responses to Indian Writing in English Calcutta:
Writers Workshop, 1984: 34-45.
Short stories do not get the critical attention given to novels. Desai is little known in the
US and her stories less so. Offers a US response to Games at Twilight assessing mostly
favourable British reviews. Notes repeat of material in :Private Tuition by Mr Bose” and
“Sale”. Suggests British resistance to and American lack of familiarity with Indian writing.
Foreign critics can assess treatments of non-Indian characters, and Desai’s American dialogue
fails. Strong on “vivid backdrop” and sensory images, some stories “lacked unified structure
or a well-developed conflict”. “Games at Twilight”, “Studies in the Park” and “Sale” are
emotionally moving. Looks for work that bridges “the gap between Indianness and
universality”.
WEIR, ANN LOWRY. "Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain" WLWE 3.2 (November
1978):548-50. [review?]
JAMKHANDI, S.R. ed. "Anita Desai: The Woman and the Novelist" Journal of Indian
Writing in English 9.1 (January 1981).
JAMKHANDI, S.R. "The Artistic Effects of the Shifts in Points of View in Anita Desai's Cry
the Peacock":35-46.
PRASAD, HARI MOHAN. "Sound or Sense: A Study in Anita Desai's Bye Bye
Blackbird":58-66.
RAM, ATMA. "A View of Where Shall We Go This Summer" :74-80.
SHARMA, ATMA RAM. "A View of Where Shall We Go this Summer?":74-80.
SRIVASTAVA, R.K. "Voices of Artists in the City": 47-57.