LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
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.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Making of the New Women in Shashi Deshpande’s Novels – A Brief Analytical Study

T. Manason, Ph.D.

The General Status of Indian Women and Shashi Deshpande

Indian women, unlike their western counterparts, have always been socially and psychologically oppressed, sexually enslaved, and biologically subjugated against a male-dominant social set-up. Any attempt by a woman to rise above the oppressive forces rooted in the middle class margins has either been curbed mercilessly, or ignored in the name of social dignity. Shashi Deshpande all through the gamut of her ever-expanding creative horizon, makes it a point to constantly provide a separate space for her characters.

Though Deshpande does not like to be labeled as a feminist writer she mostly focuses on the issues relating to the ‘rainbow coalition of rights, desires, agendas, struggles, victories’, speaking for all the women (Sattar, 1993). Just like a staunch feminist she seeks to discover the female authors’ quest for empowerment through self-expression by escaping the controlling authority of the male in the realm of social/sexual power” and examines the ‘double colonization’ of women under imperial and patriarchic condition. She also dares to “expose, question and challenge the age-old traditions and prejudices in male-dominated society” (Kaur, 2009:15- 20). Her novels eclectically employ the post-modern technique of deconstructing the patriarchic culture and customs, and revealing these to be man-made constructs (Atrey and Kirpal, 15).

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T. Manason, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
C. N. College
Erode 638 004
Tamilnadu
India
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