That Long Silence

King, Adele; Deshpande, Shashi

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“…The heroine's journey involves questioning social norms, breaking free from the constraints of traditional gender roles, and asserting her own identity. Deshpande portrays the difference experienced by women who do not conform to societal expectations and emphasizes the importance of self-expression and individuality Deshpande (1989).…”

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The Subjectivity and Otherness: Negotiating the Difference in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande

Neelakandan

2023

ShodhGyan NU J. Lit. Cul. Stu.

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This study focuses on the themes of subjectivity and otherness in Shashi Deshpande's novels, specifically examining the negotiation of difference in his works. By analyzing Deshpande's novels, including "The Dark Holds No Terrors," "That Long Silence," "The Binding Wine," " Small Remedies," and "A Matter of Time," this research examines how his characters struggle. Issues of identity, social expectations, and cultural norms. The objectives of this study are to explore the struggles individuals face in navigating differences, analyze the gap between tradition and modernity, gender roles and generational gaps, and emphasize the importance of embracing diverse perspectives and challenging social norms. By exploring the protagonists' journeys, this research aims to provide insights into the transformative power of self-discovery and the importance of embracing one's unique subjectivity despite social constraints.

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The Subjectivity and Otherness: Negotiating the Difference in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande

Neelakandan

2023

ShodhGyan NU J. Lit. Cul. Stu.

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Desirable or Dysfunctional? Family in Recent Indian English-Language Fiction

Sharrad

2013

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

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Meenakshi Mukherjee, in the period when Commonwealth Literature was attempting to establish the difference of national cultures from a British canon, pointed to the perception of early Indian novelists that South Asian family structures mitigated against working in a form based around individual characters (7-9). Where arranged marriage, the greater importance of the extended family unit, and caste affiliations had more social force, stories and their resolutions would have to look different from those of Hardy, Eliot or Henry James. If we think of the world of Austen, this is evidently a difference of degree rather than an absolute distinction, but Sudhir Kakar has also elaborated on the strength of ties in India between child and parent that moderate teenage rebellion and the radical break of adult individuation that the West has come to see as normal. The stress of Commonwealth Literature and its variants, on cultural specificity and local aesthetics, matched at the local end of the critical scale by nationalistic insistence on authenticity and tradition, kept literary treatments of the Indian family more or less centre stage but also perhaps under-examined in that they took for granted the general social grounding of particular fictions. Keywords era2015 Disciplines Arts and Humanities | LawPublication Details Sharrad, P. (2013). Desirable or dysfunctional? Family in recent Indian english-language fiction. South Asia, 36 (1), 123-133.

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Comic woman, victim woman: Pushing gender and genre boundaries in popular Hindi Cinema

Virdi

1998

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That Long Silence

Cited by 11 publications

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The Subjectivity and Otherness: Negotiating the Difference in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande

The Subjectivity and Otherness: Negotiating the Difference in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande

Desirable or Dysfunctional? Family in Recent Indian English-Language Fiction

Comic woman, victim woman: Pushing gender and genre boundaries in popular Hindi Cinema

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