Patriarchal Cruelty By Women: A Studywith Special Reference To Shashidesh Pande’s Novels – The Darkholds No Terrors And That Long Silence

Authors

  • A.V. Padmavathi Asst. Professor, Vignan’s Lara Institute of Technology and Science, Vadlamudi, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad image/svg+xml

Keywords:

Indian Writing in English, Patriarchal Society, Women, Feminine Consciousness

Abstract

Shashi Deshpande is one of the writers in Indian Writing in English who tried her best to focus on the world of Indian women in modern times. She has emerged on the Indian fictional scene of 1970’s. She occupies a significant place among the contemporary women novelists who concern themselves with the problems of women and their quest for identity. Unable to erase Indian tradition, patriarchal norms of society, Shashi Deshpande presents the middle-class educated woman as they constitute a large segment of contemporary Indian society. Shashi Deshpande equally focuses women’s cruelty to woman than man’s cruelty to woman. Lives are interlinked and interdependent in Shashi Deshpande’s novels. All her novels work through a feminine consciousness. She has showed women in a new dimension which is entirely a new depth in English Fiction. Shashi Deshpande writes from a feminine perspective. Her women are endowed with a revolt against patriarchal society. The present paper focuses on how woman is suppressed by another woman though she is well educated. Shashi Deshpande women are more matured and with their education they solve their own problems.

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References

Deshpande, Shashi, The Dark Holds No Terrors, Noida : Penguon Books India Ltd1980.

Deshpande, Shashi, That Long Silence, Noida : Penguon Books India Ltd1989.

Wikipedia

Sharma , Siddharth, Shashi Deshpande’s Novels : A Feminist study. New Delhi : Atlantic publishers and Distributors, 2005.

Published

30-06-2016

How to Cite

A.V. Padmavathi. (2016). Patriarchal Cruelty By Women: A Studywith Special Reference To Shashidesh Pande’s Novels – The Darkholds No Terrors And That Long Silence. Jai Maa Saraswati Gyandayini An International Multidisciplinary E-Journal, 1(III), 89–93. Retrieved from http://www.jmsjournals.in/index.php/jmsg/article/view/45