Study of Social and Emotional Issues of Women in Shashi Deshpande's Novels
Keywords:
Social and EmotionalAbstract
women and their problems have a central place in Shashi Deshpande’s novels. And so women characters, their interaction with men and other women, their attitudes and values are more important in the over all design of the novels than the plot. In short, her earlier novels are what may be called ‘the novels of self realization’ and so the area of action is the mind and not the material world. After their moment of crisis, the protagonists isolate themselves and go into temporary exile. This is because they need to take a quiet and objective survey of themselves and their relationship with others. This is not possible in day-to-day life, that gives us neither the time nor the space required for such self-realization. Besides, they must also go away from those persons about whom they have to think.
References
The Dark Holds No Terrors. New Delhi, Vikas, 1980.
If I Die Today. New Delhi, Vikas, 1982.
Roots and Shadows. Bombay, Sangam, 1983.
Come Up and Be Dead. New Delhi, Vikas, 1985.
That Long Silence. London, Virago Press, 1988.
The Binding Vine. London, Virago Press, 1994.
A Matter of Time. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 1996; afterword byRitu Menon, New York, Feminist Press, 1999.
Small Remedies. New York, Viking, 2000.
