A STUDY OF FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN THE NOVELS OF SHASHI DESHPANDE

Author : DR. VINAY DUBEY

Shashi Deshapande, the living dynamic Women writers 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. Her Writing reflects an ongoing process of problematizing life’s conflicts and compromises, 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,  gender discrimination, marginalization, rebellion, and protest.
The present study aims at evaluating Despande’s potential as a serious writer genuinely concerned with women’s issues. Trapped between tradition and modernity, her women protagonists undergo great mental trauma  in their quest for identity before they affirm themselves.