The work was carried out under my general s upervision and in strict conformity with the rules laid down for the purpose. In her small suburban bombay flat, jaya grapples with these and other truths about herselfamong them her failure at writing and her fear of anger. Feminist literary criticism, its history and shashi deshpande. Chapter ii life, works and shashi deshpande as a novelist. That long silence summary by shashi deshpande she recognizes that the long silence that had. The quest for an authentic selfhood on the part of the protagonist finds an artistic expression through the heroines rebellion against the patriarchal core of society. Sashi deshpande and her women protagonists an analysis. Chapterv that long silence that long silence has picked up the theme of womens subjugation and silence very emphatically. Click download or read online button to get that long silence sahsi deshpande book now. Her novel shadow play was shortlisted for the hindu literary prize in 2014.
That long silence by shashi deshpande is a fictional story, yet something that many women can relate to. Though the story is set in 70s, the relevance of it even today is depressing. Theme of marriage in shashi deshpandes that long silence. It is the story of jaya, the housewife who is seen always engaged in searching her own identity. Published by the vigaro pr in the month of june 1988, the long silence is a remarkable work by sashi deshpande. Open access subscription access open access subscription access. Her familiar existence disrupted, her husbands reputation in question and their future as a family in jeopardy, jaya, a failed writer, is haunted by memories of the past. The protagonist realizes that she has been unjust to herself and her career as a writer. It is not easy to incorporate so many social nuances in an introspective novel, dealing with abstract questions.
Ultimately, she comes out triumphant on the face of all oddities of life with the realization of her true self and her feminine identity. Themes in the recent novels of shashi deshpande with reference to. Feminist perspectives in shashi deshpandes novel that long silence. Pdf feminist perspective in shashi deshpandes that long. That long silence depicts the women world in an authentic, realistic and credible manner.
Shashi deshpande is one of the leading novelists of contemporary indian society. Shashi deshpande gives us an exceptionally accomplished portrayal of a woman trying to erase a long silence begun in childhood and rooted in herself and in the constraints of her life. Shashi deshpande is a leading woman novelist in the indian literary horizon with eight novels, four books for children, over eighty short stories and a screen play to her credit. Shashi deshpandes craft as a novelist a study with special. However, sometimes this excessive silence takes the form of cowardice. Jaya in the novel that long silence is an example for it. Due to its stylistic and thematic concerns, that long silence won the most prestigious sahitya academy award for shashi deshpande in 1989. The book is not a simple piece of fiction but has its grounding in the current panorama of indian. Click download or read online button to get that long silence book now. Her familiar existence disrupted, her husbands reputation in question and their future as a family in jeopardy.
It achieves greater creditability that jaya, the protagonist is a very well read personand a writer who corresponds with her fictional role. The present paper titled erasing the long silence in shashi deshpandes that long silence aims at studying the novel by applying some of the themes of existentialism. Pdf the theme of silence in shashi deshpandes that long. That long silence continues with the issues of women subjugation arising from marriage in an extended way.
These three novels have won awards and have been translated into a number of foreign languages. Shashi deshpande shashi deshpande s writing career began in 1970, initially with short stories, of which several volumes have been published. Novelist and short story writer, shashi deshpande began her career with short stories and has by now authored nine short story collections, twelve novels and four books for children. The novel mirrors the dilemmas of indian women in holding familial and social identity with new aspirations and choices in the maledominated society. It reveals deshpande s sincerity and ability in voicing the concerns of the urban educated middleclass woman. Shashi deshpande has so dexterously dealt with the burning issues related to womens position in the family and society in her novel that long silence. Resonance of the silence in shashi deshpandes that long silence 267 shashi deshpande, has emerged as a writer possessing deep insight into the female psyche. The paper examines how shashi deshpande s that long silence generates a dialog regarding womens speech to counter the silence that pervades the patriarchal culture which they inhabit. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Gopals assessment of the indian english novel allows us to make use of a readymade category in which shashi deshpande can be situated for a new hermeneutics informed by the questions of masculinity as a gender identity. That long silence, bred in the soul of every indian woman, whether married or not married, educated or noneducated. Resonance of the silence in shashi deshpandes that long silence. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want.
Gender and disharmony in shashi desphandes that long silence. That long silence ebook by shashi deshpande 9789386057426. Authentic female characters in the novels of shashi deshpande. Feminist outlook in that long silence by shashi deshpande. We use cookies to offer you a better experience, personalize content, tailor advertising, provide social media features, and better understand the use of our services. Jaya is a modern, convent educated, uent english speaking woman and a. Sashi deshpande abstract in her book zthat long silence articulates a thematic and technical maturity onfeminine sensibility. But then, a fascination for what is difficult has always been deshpande s forte. In this video we can know about the novel that long silence in tamil. Introduction to the paper is with the brief note on the theories of existentialism. That long silence summary by shashi deshpande english. She analyzes the causes and effects of her long silence. She was still teaching english literature in college at that time and managing life in an extended family. It is the result of her investigation and has not been submitted either.
The novel takes ahead the issues of female subjugation which the earlier novel roots and shadows deals with. She bagged sahitya akadimi award for the present novel in 1990. Rearrange individual pages or entire files in the desired order. Shashi deshpande, a sahitya akademi award winner for that long silence writes about aspiring women and their quest for self. Feminist outlook in that long silence of shashi deshpande. Analysis of that long silence by shashi deshpande bartleby. The quest for an authentic selfhood by the protagonist finds an. The term identity crisis gains a contour in this novel that long silence. From solitude to solidarity in shashi deshpandes novel that.
That long silence 1988 presents the suffocated life story of jaya who plays the role of a wife and mother, despite her every sacrifice, she finds herself lonely and estranged. In many cases, pdf files are created from existing documents instead of from scratch. Shashi deshpande delves in portraying the crisis of the middle class indian women. Jaya s life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job while allegations of business malpractice against him are investigated her familiar existence disrupted, her husband s reputation in question and their future as a family in jeopardy, jaya, a failed writer, is haunted by memories of the past differences with her husband, frustrations in theirjaya s life comes apart. A pdf file is a multiplatform document created by adobe acrobat or another pdf application. This prospect is the underlying theme of sashi deshpande s novel, that long silence, in which her lead protagonist, jaya, undergoes profound changes against the backdrop of an india that is also evolving. Jayas dilemma and quest of identity in shashi deshpande. Trapped between tradition and modernity, her sensitive heroines are fully conscious of being victims of gross gender discrimination prevalent in a conservative maledominated society. Among them her failure at writing and her fear of anger. Quest for selfidentity in shashi deshpandes that long.
Shashi deshpande becomes successful in the novel to transform jayas mute suffering into revolting thinking to gain her identity. Deshpande doesnt want her writing to be called feminist writing because she feels her novels are not a man versus woman issue at all. Shashi deshpandes that long silence dr shamenaz academia. Indian feminist author shashi deshpande s fifth novel, that long silence 1989, won the sahitya akademi award, given by the indian academy of arts and letters to outstanding works written in any of indias twentyfour major languages in. She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, the dark holds no terror, in 1980. Shashi deshpande s that long silence is an expression of the silence of the modern indian housewife. Jays life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job while allegations of business malpractice against him are investigated. Abstract the discrimination, the violence, the subjugation caused to women are the reasons for revolution against men by women.
Shashi deshpande gives us an exceptionally accomplished portrayal of a woman trying to erase a long silence begun in childhood and rooted in herself and in. In deshpande s that long silence, the feminist struggle for liberation is looked upon within the framework of the freedom crisis. Jaya, an educated middleclass woman living with her husband and kids, rahul and. Shashi deshpande s that long silence is a notable work which gained much recognition and popularity for its honest and realistic portrayal of educated indian women of present time. In this paper an attempt is, therefore, made to study shashi deshpande s women protagonists, as portrayed by her in her novels, with a view to. This paper examines dilemma and the quest of identity of the indian middle class women in the novel that long silence 1988 written by shashi deshpande. As the novel unfolds, all her female protagonists indu roots and shadows, saru the dark holds no terror, jaya that long silence, urmila the binding vine, sumi a. It is always there, silently eating into some womens heart, or coming out in some other way. G studies and research in english, kuvempu university, shankaraghatta 577451, shivamogga, karnataka. Shashi deshpande is a winner of the sahitya akademi award for that long. Shashi deshpande s that long silence, which won her the sahithya academy award for 1990, tells the story of an indian house wife who maintained her silence throughout her life in the face of hardships that threatened to break it. Jaya internalizes silence as the heritage of her culture. Shashi deshpandes novels primarily present a social world of many complex relationships. Focusing on marital relationships, she seeks to expose the tradition by which a woman is trained to play her dumb role in the family.
Deshpande is one of the prominent contemporary women writers in indian writing in english. Shashi deshpande s that long silence gains authenticity from the fact that jaya, the heroine, is a well read woman, blessed with literary sensibility though nurtured in silence which corresponds with her ctional role. Shashi deshpande s novels progresses in the same manner as her female protagonists in her novels. The novel is a recalling of jaya, the heroine, who is a writer. Often in spite of the writers best effort, the narrator fails to. That long silence summary by shashi deshpande she recognizes that the long silence that had crept between the two and how it destroyed their mutual tru. In this novel deshpande raises her strong voice of protest against the maledominated indian society, their rules and conventions. Shashi deshpande is an award winning indian novelist. Shashi deshpandes that long silence and small remedies free download as pdf file. The prime character of the novel is jaya, who keeps her silence for the seventeen years. The paper attempts to examine the feminist perspective in that long silence of shashi deshpande. Shashi deshpande does not define herself as a feminist writer.
The male superiority signifies the patriarchal culture in the. That long silence seeks to represent the plight of women especially jaya kulkarni the main protagonist in a. That long silence sahsi deshpande download ebook pdf. Shukatai who had been blaming her daughter so long is left to cope with the bitter truth that it is her own blindness and ignorance that have. She immolates herself the following day to atone for her husbands misdeeds. That long silence by shashi deshpande overdrive rakuten. Assistant professor of english aided, ngm college, pollachi, tamil nadu, india. Feminist perspective in shashi deshpandes that long silence. Shashi deshpandes that long silence and small remedies. Shashi deshpande s chief thematic concern is with a womens struggle, in the context of contemporary indian society, her effort to find and preserve her identity as a wife, mother and most of all as a human being.
This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of that long silence by shashi deshpande. It is very well expressed and won the sahitya academy award in 1990. The present book seeks to study the feminist perspective in shashi deshpande s novels. The study aims at exploring the defined gender roles in male dominated societies, the perpetual oppression of the female and the pursuit for. Though no doubt indu in roots and shadows suffers certain. Analysis of shashi deshpande s that long silence 24 words 6 pages.
The meaning of it is interpreted in terms of the mentality of the person against whom it is casted. Till date she has twelve novels, six short story collections, four books for children and a screen play to her credit. It also looks into how these myths and folklore become characters in themselves at some point in these fictions. Her novels and shortstories portray social re ality the way it is, without any explicit critica1 clairn on the way it ought to be. To achieve this goal, i have examined two ideologiesone grounded in patriarchy and the other grounded in female agency and dialogto reveal the problems within. Quest for selfidentity in shashi deshpandes that long silence and the dark holds no terrors firdous hussain parra research scholar, department of english, aligarh muslim university, aligarh, uttar pradesh, india abstract the theme of quest for selfidentity of women, when dealt by women writers, is pondered upon and reflected. A culturespecific approach has been adopted to unravel shashi deshpande s pragmatic resolution related to the modern indian woman s beleaguered existence. She said she lapped up the narrative not for its literary subtleties or niceties but for the empathy it created for the woman in the narrative. Shashi deshpande is an award winning novelist and a short story writer. Massachusetts institute of technology department of economics the morris and sophie chang building e52300 50 memorial drive cambridge, ma 02142. It studies how these allusions illuminate not only the characters but also the situations.
Shashi deshpandes artistic and acclaimed novel that long silence is a portrayal of the silences of the indian housewives in the late nineties. In studying the novel from a feminist point of view, an effort has been made to study deshpande s psychological insights into the indian womans. Madhu, the mouth piece of deshpande gives the most striking truth that its always a losing battle. She has won the prestigious sahitya academy award for her fifth novel, that long silence in 1989, she was awarded padma shri in 2009. Deshpande has written four childrens books, a number of. That long silence by shashi deshpande is a story that many women will relate to. Transformation of woman in the modern generation surender allam associate professor of english, vjit hyderabad. That long silence full novel pdf that long silence depicts the women world in an authentic, realistic and credible manner. Jayas life resembles any typical indian housewife, compromising for. Deshpande s cr eative talent and accomplishment have established her credentials as a worthy writer.
The present paper is a critique of shashi deshpande s zthat long silence with the perspective of exploring the voice of female s self actualization. In that long silence shashi deshpande describes the subtle undulation of mood, the see saw moments of delight and desolation, the flotsam and jetsam of. That long silence download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Family in selected novels of shashi deshpande philosophy at the indian institute of technology guwahati. Read it if you like to read the thoughts of a mind, lot of which you would identify with. Every woman today is aware of their rights and can stand for themselves, but still the silence continues. That long silence by shashi deshpande is based in the context of contemporary indian writing in english, deshpande is one of the most understated yet confident voices, who explores individual and universal predicaments through the female psyche. This article deals with one of deshpande s most significant novels, that long silence. She understands that silence can never help a healthy relationship. That long silence is the story of jaya, a housewife and mother to two teenaged children and is a writer in her free time.
She is the author of the dark holds no terrors and that long silence. Her novels replicate their high significant minds of womens identity seem to. Shashi deshpande told joel kuortti in an interview. Her protagonists find themselves entrapped in the roles. Affirmation of self in shashi deshpandes small remedies. Two novels have been selectedthat long silence and a matter of time. Jayas life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job while allegations of business malpractice against him are investigated. Shashi deshpandes novel that long silence is the understanding of womans silence and its suffocation. The pdf format is commonly used for saving documents and publications in a standard format that can be viewed on multiple platforms. In her novel that long silence, jaya, the protagonist is a sufferer since her childhood and right up. Buy that long silence book online at low prices in india. Shashi deshpande is a writer who can focus intensely and elaborately on a network of male repression and is concerned with making statements regarding the politics of male power and its effect on women. Shashi deshpande s that long silence 1988 deals directly with feminist narratological preoccupation with.
Although shashi deshpande is regularly posited as an author of progressive feminist politics, whose fictions present a subjugated femininity under the oppression of a unitary and oppressive masculinity. She won the sahitya akademi award for the novel that long silence in 1990 and the padma shri award in 2009. Many female writers either create unreal sentimental romances or finally succumb to the temptation of feminist ideology. Shashi deshpandes that long silence 1988 deals directly with feminist narratological preoccupation with. Shashi deshpandes that long silence is the award winning novel which depicts the prolong silence of women in the society. That long silence is a hysterical novel in the sense that inside of me i was kind of screaming, but when it came out as you said. She is a winner of the sahitya akademi award, for the novel that long silence. But deshpande has created characters based on the reallife experience in her. Oct 09, 2009 i remember presenting shashi deshpandes that long silence to my mother. Shashi deshpande derives the title of the novel that long silence from the readers but she remains silent probing into her past, struggling with her present. Shashi deshpande depicts women with no voice through her character jaya in that long silence having ambition to be heard. That long silence by shashi deshpande is a fictional story, yet.
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