Shashi Despande as a Feminist

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Arti Sinha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande, born in 1938 at Dharwad, Karnataka, is the daughter of renowned Kannada dramatist and Sanskrit scholar, Late Adya Rangachar Shriranga. Deshpande, a recipient of the prestigious ‘Sahitya Akademy Award’ for ‘That Long Silence’ is well known for her short stories, children books and novels. Her chief novels include ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’ [1980], ‘The Roots and the Shadows’ [1983], ‘That Long Silence’ [1989], ‘A Matter of Time’ [1996], ‘Small Remedies’ [2000], ‘The Binding Vine’ [2002] etc. In these novels, she has very subtly voiced the agonies, sufferings, hopes, aspirations and frustrations through the protagonists and other characters, who are generally the respresentative of middle class urban educated women.

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.  

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 Consumption and Consumer Society as Postmodernity in Contemporary Thai Fiction

MANUSYA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Saowanit Chunlawong
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Consumer Society

This article aims to scrutinize the postmodern concept of consumption and consumer society from the Thai perspective through four Thai short stories written in a period exemplary of economic change including “Hong Thoe Hong Chan Khan Kan Duai Khwam Ngao” (Your Room, My Room Separated by Loneliness), by Paritat Hutangkul; “Pathanukrom Chiwit Chabap Khon Chan Klang Krungthep” (The lexicon of the life of middle class Bangkokians) and “Ching ming” (Tomb sweeping day), by Win Lyovarin; and “Lok Bai Lek Khong Salman” (The little world of Salman), by Kanogpong Songsompuntu. Each represents Thai society as a consumer society where people live between constant dilemma and vital agony. In these four stories, consumption is corrupt eroding social norms, moral values, and human dignity. Since consumption is an apparatus of the system of production, it perpetuates it by exploiting the individual’s needs and desires. People cannot evade a perpetual rise in consumption, and are therefore bound to this socio-economic mode.

Alternate Realms of Authority

2018 ◽  
pp. 214-260
Author(s):  
Sujata S. Mody
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
World War I ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
World War ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Women's Speech ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 5 examines two landmark Hindi short stories that contested aspects of Dwivedi’s literary agenda. In ‘Dulāīvālī’ (quilt-woman), Banga Mahila used regional and domestic women’s speech in addition to Dwivedi’s preferred standard, Khari Boli prose. Her fictional exploration of the impact of nationalist ideals on middle-class Bengali women in the Hindi-belt further challenged the patriarchal authority with which Dwivedi and other nationalists sought to shape an emergent nation. Chandradhar Sharma ‘Guleri’, in ‘Usne kahā thā’ (she had said), employed regional/ethnic speech that was also gendered, as masculine and vulgar, once again flouting Dwivedi’s preferences for an upright, Khari Boli standard. His story, featuring a Sikh soldier fighting in Europe during World War I, upheld some nationalist ideals, but also defied conventional mores. Both stories underwent extensive editorial revisions, yet there remains a record in their final published versions of their authors’ defiance, and of Dwivedi’s strategic responses to such challenges.

Una borghese piccola piccola: Ragazze milanesi in Giorgio Scerbanenco ed Elio Pagliarani

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 574-590
Author(s):  
Federica Santini
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Experimental Poetry ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
And Gender

The project consists of a study of selected works by two authors who have not been connected or compared before, experimental poet Elio Pagliarani and noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. Specifically, the study explores several coinciding representations of lower-middle class women in Pagliarani’s poem La ragazza Carla and Scerbanenco’s collection of short stories Milano Calibro 9. Through references to existing scholarship on each author and analytical readings of the texts, the study aims to demonstrate how the two writers, who were active at the same time in Milan, showed much attention to class and gender issues in their work, and thus obtained similar results through very different stylistic approaches. In addition, the study explores the underlying reasons for which Pagliarani and Scerbanenco chose to focus on realistic representations of Milanese women within their distinct narrative scopes. Finally, the article has the secondary goal of breaking the canon by focusing on two genres, experimental poetry and popular literature, which are rarely if ever considered together.

scholarly journals Reflection of Indian Culture in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 112-122
Author(s):  
Prajesh Jena
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Indian Family ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Indian Religion

Shashi Deshpande is a well-known name in the field of Indian literature and is a contemporary writer from Karnataka. She portrays in her novel "A Matter of Time" the truth of Indian society in Indian families. The importance of culture for Indian women is also discussed. Her novels are distinguished for their genuine depictions of the Indians and their history. She used Indian names and the role of Indian Middle Class Women in her novel A Matter of Time through the character Sumi. She talks about Indian Women, Indian Culture, Indian Religion, Indian Family, Religions and Beliefs, Family Traditions, and Emotions, among other topics. A Matter of Time is a multi-generational novel that moves around the plight and predicament of Indian women whose lives are deeply rooted in Indian beliefs, superstitions, conventions and traditions. Women have been living and breathing silently for thousands of years under the umbrella of patriarchy and with their "gazing." With the foundation of patriarchy, the disparity between man and woman, in its unwritten form, has developed through language, customs, rituals, myths and practises. Myths, rituals, and customs contribute to the evolution and establishment of human society. They are naturally developed, but are indeed societal buildings and help in developing patriarchal ideologies. They are believed to be natural. They are, therefore, essential to women's subjugation in our society.

scholarly journals MODERN WOMENS ASPIRATIONS IN SHASHI DESHPANDE THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 732-734
Author(s):  
Abha Pandey ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
New Woman ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Economic Dependence ◽  
Realistic Picture ◽  
Middle Class Woman ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Class Woman ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande in her novel has presented a realistic picture of the modern educated, intelligent middle class woman in the novel. The New Woman is neither fully traditional nor fully modern. A new paradigms related to a womans life came into existence i.e. tradition and modernity, economic dependence, self-assertion, aspiration and independent in life in her novel.The New Woman in Deshpandes novel gets all types of rights in their life hence they struggle a lot to get free from the traditional world andin quest for her own identity. The present paper is an attempt to analyze Shashi Deshpandes novel The Dark Holds No Terrors.The Methodology followed in the analysis is of comparative and contrast.Sarita is the main protagonist of the novel, who is modern emancipated middle-class educated woman in the novel. She plays different roles to achieve her goals and aspirations in her life through facing various traumas in the novel.An attempt has been made to highlight Deshpandes story The Dark Holds No Terror that allocates the educated women in all possible ways.

Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886-1965)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jortner
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Magazine ◽  
Kanto Earthquake ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro ◽  
Japanese Aesthetics ◽  
The University

Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886-1965) was a leading novelist, playwright and theorist of the Taishō and Shōwa eras. Although best known as a novelist, Tanizaki’s plays also reflected his literary concerns with eroticism, aestheticism, and decadence. Tanizaki Jun’ichirō was born in Tokyo to a middle-class family. Tanizaki mentions having had a privileged childhood; his parents often took him to the theatre and exposed the author to the traditional Japanese arts. However, numerous business reversals resulted in a decline of the family’s fortune; Tanizaki had to abandon his studies at the University of Tokyo in 1911 for a lack of money. Tanizaki began writing while still a student at the University of Tokyo, publishing his first play in a literary magazine in 1909. He continued to write short stories, plays and novels throughout the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1923 Tanizaki’s house in Yokohama was destroyed by the great Kantō earthquake; he subsequently moved to the Osaka area. His work changed at this time as he became less interested in issues of modernity and the West and more involved with Japanese aesthetics and tradition. Tanizaki continued to write until 1943, when the serialization of his novel Sasemeyuki (The Makioka Sisters, 1943-1948) was stopped by the militarist government.

Inner Speech as a Gramophone Record

2018 ◽  
pp. 114-140
Author(s):  
Angela Frattarola
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Inner Speech ◽  
First Person ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Good Morning ◽  
Dialectical Relationship

In Jean Rhys’s fiction, advertisements, songs, books, and voices of others impinge upon the interior monologues of her characters. In particular, the popular songs that are integrated into Rhys’s first-person novels enhance the auditory nature of her interior monologues. Yet, while the songs referenced in Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Good Morning, Midnight (1939) sometimes foster automatic responses and clichéd understandings for her narrators, they can also instill a sense of defiance and comfort, making music one of the few channels for a momentary sense of fulfillment and expression. By surveying Rhys’s depiction of popular gramophone recordings and their Bohemian associations in her short stories, this chapter reveals how Rhys crafts and commodifies a bohemian voice in her novels, which sounds out the dialectical relationship between a middle-class public with an appetite for lurid tales of the underbelly of society and so-called bohemians, who pushed the boundaries of individuality and freedom.

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