LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:12 December 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Resonance of the Silence in Shashi Deshpande’s
That Long Silence

S. Mariammal, M.A., M.Phil.

<em>That Long Silence</em>

Abstract

Shashi Deshpande occupies a prominent place among the Indian English Novelists through her vivid portrayal of middle class Indian women and their sufferings. She focuses mainly on the career women and their quest for identity in the male chauvinistic Indian social set up. That Long silence is not an exception to this.

Jaya, the protagonist of this novel, goes in search of individuality, but feels helpless within the family itself which excludes her. Though she is an educated woman, she is not exempted from patriarchal domination. She leads a life of a victim after her marriage. Her marital life also places her in the narrow space where she is swiftly caught in the trap. Eventually she prepares herself to face life as it is. In the novel That Long Silence, we see how Deshpande skillfully depicts Indian middle-class educated women with a note of realism and optimism. The novel also implies a vital symbolic suggestion that the silence is not in the inner mind, but within one’s own conscience. This paper attempts to look deep into the problems of educated Indian women of the middle-class, especially as presented by Deshpande.

Key words: career women, male chauvinistic, patriarchal domination, feminism, long silence

Literature – Art, Morality and Social Reform

Literature is a truthful expression of life through the medium of language. Its success lies in blending both art and morality in such a beautiful way that art, in the long run, becomes the thought. It reflects not only social reality, but also shapes the complex ways in which men and women organize themselves and their perception of the socio-cultural reality.

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S. Mariammal, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
N.G.M .College
Pollachi – 642 001
Tamilnadu
India
mariammalmagi@rediffmail.com
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