LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:3 March 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Familial Relationships in Shashi Deshpande’s Roots And Shadows
and A Matter Of Time

K. Kaleeswari, M.A., M.Phil.


Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande, the living dynamic woman writer in Indian English literature occupies a prominent position. She has treated the typical Indian themes very sensitively and has pictured the contemporary middle-class women with rare competence. Shashi Deshpande’s novels and short stories depict the anguish and conflict of the modern educated Indian woman caught as if in a vice between patriarchy and tradition on the one hand, and the urge of self-expression, individuality and independence for the woman on the other. Her fiction explores the search of the woman to fulfill herself basically as a human being, independent of her various traditional roles as daughter, wife, mother and so on. A prominent strain of her novels is the depiction of the ‘self’ of her protagonists.

Deshpande’s writing reflects an ongoing process of problematizing life’s conflicts and compromises, resolutions and non-resolutions, ironies and affirmations, triumphs and tragedies, and so on. This way of looking at the human condition without any closures, concretizes major themes of her fictions as man-woman relationship, human desire, longing, body, and gender discrimination, marginalization, rebellion and protest. She draws attention of her readers, to the dilemmas of women and the choices they make when they find themselves in the whirlpool of complex man –woman relationships. Though her women protagonists are consistently pressured in clumsy, knotty relationships, her women firmly refuse to become prisoners of orthodoxies, fossilized traditions; stereotypically idealized identities. Thereby she casts a very hard look at the structural dynamics of the society functioning against the advantage of female.

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K. Kaleeswari, M.A., M.Phil.
Department of English
The Standard Fire Works Rajaratnam College for Women
Sivakasi-626 123
Tamilnadu
India
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