LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:7 July 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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Shashi Deshpande’s Depiction of the Inner Struggles of Modern New Women

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D., D. Litt.

Abstract

This paper projects feminism as a highly important issue contemporary thought and male devised orthodoxies about women’s nature. It also picturizes women’s nature, roles and capacities with a focus on feminist perspectives and sensibility reflected in the fictional world of Shashi Deshpande. Shashi Deshpande is a feminist using her literary fort in the current literary scenario for exploring the inner struggle of modern new women.

Keywords: Shashi Deshpande, feminism issue, contemporary thought, women’s nature, women’s role, sensibility, feminist, inner struggle.

Feminism

Feminism has become a highly important issue in contemporary thought and male devised orthodoxies about women’s nature, capacities and roles have been challenged. The general radical climate of the 60’s nourished the women’s movement rather indirectly. The 70’s and 80’s have been distinguished by what has come to be known as the ‘Second Wave’ of feminism. In the 1980’s feminism emerged as a thought system, a point of view to reorganize the world readily, a positivist approach to life, a step towards sanity in human relationship and perhaps the only mode for preservation of very human existence on this planet. Like so many ‘isms’ feminism is a term dating back to the 19th century’, but it also has several meanings. It has born out of the status of woman and the political, economic and social climate of the 19th century, which explains its emergence as an organized movement.’

Truly speaking, ‘feminism’ is committed to the struggle for equality for women. But the struggle for equal rights historically and politically emphasizes the value of women as they are. Women are of equal human value in their own way. As the historian Linda Gordon says, “Feminism in an analysis of women’s subordination for the purpose of figuring out how to change it” (P8). The Feminist criticism did emerge as an off shoot of the women’s liberation movement, sharing its polemical force and activist commitment. The feminist criticism protested against the exclusion of women and the movement provided the impetus.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt.
Professor, Head and Chairperson
School of English & Foreign languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
MADURAI-21 (TN)
India
schelliah62@gmail.com

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