Emancipation of women in the select Novels of Shashi Deshpande

Abstract

Shashi Deshpande has been the champion of the concerns and struggles of women. She, in her works, very realistically depicts the various roles a woman plays in course of her life as a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter, a daughter-in-law and so on. Her works can’t be called directly feminist since her works are not against man, in fact, her works portrays the dilemma of the new educated modern working women in the conventional Indian society. This research paper attempts to analyse the emancipating of women protagonist in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980), That Long Silence (1989), and The Binding Vine (2002), all depicts the women world in an authentic, realistic and credible manner. This article highlights the fact that it is not the circumstances that contribute to the negation of women’s rights; but the fact is that it is their women folk who polarize their dig at the emancipation of women. It also attempts at highlighting the fact that women are denied rights not only because of the circumstances but also because women themselves suppress other women and use men as instruments.