SARU AND JAYA’S JOURNEY FROM SILENCE TO SPEECH IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S WORKS
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2020-12-01
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Chainany E-Journal
Abstract
Shashi Deshpande‟s realistic view as a true feminist on the condition of middle-class women
is well expressed in all her novels but here the researcher has selected her two award-winning
novels The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980) and That Long Silence (1988). The aim of this
research paper is to examine the status of Indian women in this male–oriented world and her
resistance, she offers to patriarchy with the reference of these two novels. Her novels offer a
mingling of the patriarchal norms and conditions and how women had undertaken these
traumas with compassion and understanding. Hence, Shashi Deshpande‟s all works of fiction
are represented as the women‟s journey from „Silence to Speech’ and ultimately trying to
find their own voices. Often these voices arise out of silences. Human issues, especially
human dignity and problems, are at the heart of her writing. She sticks closely to daily life
experience and problems of women that prevail even till today in our society; no one has
been able to release from these shackles. Her ideas of women‟s liberation, autonomy are
deeply surrounded in the Indian women‟s situation within the socio-cultural and economic
spaces and paradigms of the country.