Contribution of Shashi Deshpande

 Shashi Deshpande has been a very serious Indian English woman novelist who has depicted different aspects of woman's life especially the middle class woman's life- in her short stories as well as novels. Shashi Deshpande has a subjugate but significant presence in the Indian literary imagination with eight novels, two crime novels, and four books for children, six collections of short stories and numerous articles. Her famous novels are The Dark Holds No Terrors, If I Die Today, Roots and Shadow, That Long Shadow, Come Up and Be Dead, The Binding Vine, A Matter of Time, Small Remedies.
She is the recipient of Thirumathi Rangammal prize for her novel 'Roots and Shadows', Sahitya Academy award for the novel 'That Long Silence' and Nanjangud Thirumalamba award for the novel 'The Dark Holds No Terrors'.
In her novel she deals with the emotional deprivation in its different facets. She emphasizes the traditional Indian society heir against woman and how many time remain themselves oppress their fellow women. She usually employs the female protagonist as the narrator and uses the stream of consciousness technique. She portrays the meaning of being a woman in modern India.
Her feminism is peculiarly Indian in the sense that it is born out of the predicament of Indian women placed between contradictory identities: tradition and modernity, family and profession, culture and nature. Her art is intensely personal, not political. Her feminism rooted in the native environment tends to be humanistic and optimistic in its outlook.
She is responsible for the speeding up of the pace and promotion of the sexual revolution in India with her sensuous novels and western outlook.   

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