The Ring of Recollection: Transgenerational Haunting in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande (review)

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 360-363
Author(s):  
Namrata Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Transgenerational Haunting

Problems of Marriage and Self Surrender in The Novels of Shashi Deshpande

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Dr. Indu Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Family ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Middle Class People

Marriage is an important thing in the life of a woman. The importance that our society attaches to marriage is reflected in our literature and it is the central concern of Shashi Deshpade’s novels. In our society where girl learns early that she is ‘Paraya Dhan’, and she is her parents’ responsibility till the day she is handed over to her rightful owners. What a girl makes of her life, how she shapes herself as an individual, what profession she takes up is not as important as whom she marries. Marriage is the ultimate goal of a woman’s life. This paper attempts to probe into the problems of marriage through the protagonists of her novels where one enjoys the freedom of marriage and the other accepts the traditional marriage. Shashi Deshpade highlights the problems of marriage faced by middle-class people in finding suitable grooms for their daughters. This problem is well-illustrated through the characters of her novels. Since the girl’s mind over her childhood is tuned that she is another’s property, she tries to attach a lot of importance to it. it is indeed a tragedy that even in the modern age, Indian females echo the same sentiment where it was marriage which mattered most of them but not to the men. It is a beginning of females sacrifices in life that marriage brings to her. Shashi Deshpande encourages her female protagonists to rise in rebellion against the males in the family matters, instead she wants to build a harmonious relationship between man and woman in a mood of compromise and reconciliation.  

Feminist concern of Girish Karnad Novel: Nagamandala

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Ruchi Saxena ◽  
◽  
Dr. Anshu Raj Purohit ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Child Marriage ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Male Feminist

This present paper attempts to critically analyse the selected novel of Girish Karnad _Nagamandala. Girish Karnad, as a dramatist, is free from any such feminist tags and like Shashi Deshpande, an Indian woman novelist, treats ‘woman as a woman’ and as ‘a human being’. As a male feminist, he has treated the feminist issues like child marriage, loveless marriage, exploitation of wife in the hands of husband, double standards of society and law operating against her in the society etc. It also expresses the hollowness and injustice of patriarchal society. He insists that it is not patriarchy but matriarchy which is essential for society. Thus, the refined sensibilities of woman like love, sex, compassion and tolerance make her unsurpassable in the society. The pride of woman also finds a space in his play Naga Mandala.

scholarly journals Feministic Images of Women in Shashi Deshpande's Fiction Roots and Shadows and The Binding Vine

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Shilpa Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Images Of Women

Shashi Deshpande is the most prolific writer among her contemporaries. Her writing reflects her image of middle class Indian woman. In most of her novels her protagonists are modern, well‑educated and financially independent women. The main theme of her novels are problems of middle class women who were trapped between tradition and modernity. The protagonists always try to maintain their marriage in spite of the fact that they are mentally and physically tortured by their husbands. The objective of this study is to show the feminist perspective of Shashi Deshpande's women characters in her two novels Roots and Shadows and The Binding Vine. This study also aim to figure out how the women characters of these novels assert themselves.

scholarly journals The Theme of Loss and Grief in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Vanitha Devaraju
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Loss And Grief ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Shashi Deshpande

A writer throws light on the darkest aspects of life and motivates the reader by projecting the human realities through their fictional characters. Success and failure are the part of impermanent life. Have we ever tried to analyze the struggles and challenges behind one's failure and success? In a patriarchal society, women have to undergo multiple struggles and challenges and require an indomitable spirit to quench her thirst of success. It is highly important to analyze the psychology of women in her loses and happiness. As a woman novelist, Shashi Deshpande novels mostly centered on Women's lives and their challenges to survive in the Indian society. The female protagonist in Small Remedies has gone through several loses and grief beyond her success. Other women characters also built their strong identity after crossing all the barriers and awakening the collective consciousness.

Interview with Shashi Deshpande

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Romita Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Shashi Deshpande

Interview: Shashi Deshpande Talks to Lakshmi Holmström

Wasafiri ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Holmström
Keyword(s):  
Shashi Deshpande

scholarly journals Optimistic Changes in the Characters of Shashi Deshpande’s in A Matter of Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
M. Saraswathy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
Negative Thoughts ◽  
The World ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande focuses the need of human beings of present generation to be optimistic in the fast moving planetary as human life across the world is turning bleak time and again. In modern society, people fail to train their minds to be positive, they intentionally or unintentionally give space for emotions and thoughts to torture their thoughts perhaps and that leads to mental illness and carries malicious reflection in individuals, families and societies. Shashi Deshpande does a complete analysis on the rational thinking process of human beings to create happiness and to experience the power of one’s creation in this cosmic. Through her characters, Shashi Deshpande makes the readers understand that to enhance and empower their role in life, they must learn to unlearn negative thoughts and fill their minds with positive thoughts.

scholarly journals Women Writers in India: Tracing Feminism

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 5493-5498
Author(s):  
Ms. Bharti, Dr. Shriya Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Women's Voice ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Pandita Ramabai ◽  
Women Writer

From pre-Independence period to the contemporary times, women’s voice is gradually being heard and gaining momentum. It is hoped as well as expected that women would soon become a prominent voice making a mark in the society. Their point of view along with their decision making authority will have a definite and constructive impact on the society. This can be inferred from the literature by various Indian women writers such as Pandita Ramabai, Ismat Chughtai, Kamala Das and Shashi Deshpande. As we move from one decade to another entering the 21st century, we observe how women have been able to break the cocoon of domesticity, marking their presence in various socio-political spheres which have been usually dominated by men. Women have sought their space for expression and voicing opinion through literature. Depicting the oppression and discrimination faced in the patriarchal setup of Indian society, the women writers have pointed at the need for equality in practice as well as representation. The article will provide a discussion regarding Feminism in India, analysing each period or phase along with a women writer.

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