Volume IV Special Issue II February 2024

Name of Author : N Guna Abirami, Dr. V Navaneethamani

Title of the paper : Unconscious Search to an Untied Remedy: An Analysis of Shashi Deshpandes Small Remedies

Abstract: Indian writer, Shashi Deshpande is best known for her simplified language filled with inevitable remarks about the contemporary Indian society. The novel Small Remedies is about a bereaved woman turned writer and the narrator of the novel, Madhu Saptarishi. The narrators unconscious introspection begins when asked to write a biography of Savitribai Indorekar helps to identify her heal for her grief. The novel connects three women through Madhus reminding memory of Madhu -herself in her childhood, her aunt Leela and Savitribai she once knew as a child and now as person to be interviewed. Small Remedies like her other novels is set up in the patriarchal Indian society depicting women as victims in spite of their independent nature. The paper attempts to analyse how Madhu overcomes her grief over the death of her son without her realizing it, connecting her current scenario with the two women characters, Savitribai and Leela, she has always admired in the novel amidst rambling questions that raise within her leading her to her remedy to overcome her loss.

Keywords : Introspection, Tradition, Social Norms, Remedy, Introversion, Memory

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Page Number : 69-72