Volume III Special Issue IV April 2023

Name of Author : V Pavithra

Title of the paper : Theme of Feminism in Shashi Deshpandes Novel That Long Silence

Abstract: Silence is a recurring theme in post-colonial literature. Shashi Deshpande is one of the prominent contemporary women writers in Indian writing in English. Her protagonists find themselves entrapped in the assigned to them by society, but they achieve self-identity and independence within the confines of their marriage. They use silence as a weapon to show their protests and to muddle through their problems. Deshpande has won the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award for her fifth novel, That Long Silence in 1989 and was awarded Padma Shri in 2009.Feminism is a ubiquitous theme in her novel, That Long Silence. This paper explores the realities behind the sufferings of the protagonist Jaya, who attempts to resolve her problems by a process of temporary withdrawal and achieves it only after breaking her long silence.

Keywords : Silence, Husband-Wife Relationship, Marital Disharmony, Temporary Withdrawal

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Page Number : 20-22