SHASHI DESHPANDE’S INDIAN FEMININE PROTAGONISTS
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https://doi.org/10.61841/2hcgcn40Keywords:
Unexpressed, Portrayed, Region, Feminine, ProtagonistsAbstract
Shashi Deshpande’s novels usually deal with female protagonists striving to search or find their own selves. Deshpande’s heroines do it through writing andultimately take a resolution in their lives. The unexpressed and often ignored issues of women from their unknown regions are clearly portrayed in her novels.
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1. Adele King,” Shashi Deshpande: Portraits of an IndianWoman,” The New Indian Novel in English ed.VinneyKirpal (New Delhi: Allied, 1990), p.166
2. Chanana, R. 2006. "Feminine Predicament in theNovels of ShashiDeshpande". Literati. Vol. II, Issue I,Jan, pp. 1-14
3. Deshpande, Shashi. 1988. That Long Silence. London,Virago Press, 1988; New Delhi: Penguin, 1989.
4. Kirpal, Viney, ed. The New Indian Novel in English:A Study of the 1980, New Delhi: Allied 1990,p.164.
5. That Long Silence London: Virago Press Ltd.1988
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