Shashi Deshpande S That Long Silence

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : India
ISBN : 0140127232

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That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Jay'S Life Comes Apart At The Seams When Her Husband Is Asked To Leave His Job While Allegations Of Business Malpractice Against Him Are Investigated. Her Familiar Existence Disrupted, Her Husband'S Reputation In Question And Their Future As A Family In Jeopardy, Jaya, A Failed Writer, Is Haunted By Memories Of The Past. Differences With Her Husband, Frustrations In Their Seventeen-Year-Old Marriage, Disappointment In Her Two Teenage Children, The Claustrophia Of Her Childhood&Amp;Mdash;All Begin To Surface. In Her Small Suburban Bombay Flat, Jaya Grapples With These And Other Truths About Herself&Amp;Mdash;Among Them Her Failure At Writing And Her Fear Of Anger. Shashi Deshpande Gives Us An Exceptionally Accomplished Portrayal Of A Woman Trying To Erase A 'Long Silence' Begun In Childhood And Rooted In Herself And In The Constraints Of Her Life.

Author : T. M. J. Indra Mohan
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8126903090

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Shashi Deshpande by T. M. J. Indra Mohan Pdf

The Present Book Is A Thorough Critical Analysis Of Shashi Deshpande S Works And Has Been Prepared Keeping In Mind The Requirements Of Students In Indian Universities And Colleges. While Choosing The Critical Essays, The Broad-Based Study On The Author Has Been Given Due Significance In This Volume. This Book May Also Provide A Useful Insight To The Foreign Readers As The Essays Are Written By The Indian Experts Who Understand And Live Within The Socio-Cultural Context Of India. However, The Feelings As Portrayed By The Novelist Is Universal, Placed In The Situation, The Same Would Be The Predicament Whether Male Or Female As The Writer Universalizes Certain Basic Emotions Irrespective Of National Character. It Is Fervently Hoped That This Book Would Stimulate Further Research Into The Domain Of Indian Women Writers Works To Focus Certain Aspects Hitherto Unexplored.

Author : Santwana Haldar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8178510219

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Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence by Santwana Haldar Pdf

This Book Offers A Detailed Study Of The Novel That Adds To The Fast Growing Corpus Of Feminist Criticism And Women`S Studies.

Author : Sathupati Prasanna Sree
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8176253812

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Woman in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande by Sathupati Prasanna Sree Pdf

Shashi Deshpande, b. 1938, Indian English novelist.

Author : Binod Mishra
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 8176256765

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Critical Responses To Feminism by Binod Mishra Pdf

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : 0140294872

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Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Shashi Deshpande's latest novel explores the lives of two women, one obsessed with music and the other a passionate believer in Communism, who break away from their families to seek fulfilment in public life. Savitribai Indorekar, born into an orthodox Hindu family, elopes with her Muslim lover and accompanist, Ghulaam Saab, to pursue a career in music. Gentle, strong-willed Leela, on the other hand, gives her life to the Party, and to working with the factory workers of Bombay. Fifty years after these events have been set in motion, Madhu, Leela's niece, travels to Bhavanipur, Savitribai's home in her last years, to write a biography of Bai. Caught in her own despair over the loss of her only son. Madhu tries to make sense of the lives of Bai and those around her, and in doing so, seeks to find a way out of her own grief.

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789351181613

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Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Why are you still alive-why didn't you die?' Years on, Sarita still remembers her mother's bitter words uttered when as a little girl she was unable to save her younger brother from drowning. Now, her mother is dead and Sarita returns to the family home, ostensibly to take care of her father, but in reality to escape the nightmarish brutality her husband inflicts on her every night. In the quiet of her old father's company Sarita reflects on the events of her life: her stultifying small town childhood, her domineering mother, her marriage to the charismatic young poet Mahohar.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8126926872

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Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8171568246

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Feminist English Literature by Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar Pdf

Feminism Is A Rapidly Developing Critical Ideology Of Great Promise. It Has Evolved Into A Philosophy Encompassing Diverse Fields Of Human Activity In Society. The Feminist Theory, Its Varied Articulations And Its Ramifications In A Literary Context Constitute A Significant Segment For Critical Endeavour.The Present Anthology Provides A Broad Spectrum On Feminist English Literature With In-Depth Analysis Of The Works Of Kamala Das, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Rama Mehta, Shashi Deshpande, Uma Vasudevan, Githa Hariharan, Nina Sibal, Arundhati Roy, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Jean Rhys, Ellen Glasgow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison And Others.The Volume Also Contains Articles On Feminist Theory, The Emerging Self Of Women In Indian English Fiction And General Appraisal Of Women Novelists As Regards Their Portrayal Of The Woman S Question.

Author : Clara Nubile
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 8176254029

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The Danger of Gender by Clara Nubile Pdf

With reference to 20th century Indian English literature with special reference to gender identity.

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781558617858

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The Binding Vine by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

“There can be no vaulting over time,” thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpande’s profound and soul-stirring novel. “We have to walk every step of the way, however difficult or painful it is; we can avoid nothing.” After the death of her baby, Urmila finds her own path difficult to endure. But through her grief, she is drawn into the lives of two very different women—one her long-dead mother-in-law, a thwarted writer, the other a young woman who lies unconscious in a hospital bed. And it is through these quiet, unexpected connections that Urmi begins her journey toward healing. The miracle of The Binding Vine, and of Shashi Deshpande's deeply compassionate vision, is that out of this web of loss and despair emerge strand of life and hope—a binding vine of love, concern, and connection that spreads across chasms of time, social class, and even death. In moving and exquisitely understated prose, Deshpande renders visible the extraordinary endurance and grace concealed in women's everyday lives.

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009039400

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Roots and Shadows by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Author : Siddhartha Sharma
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism and literature
ISBN : 8126903856

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Shashi Deshpande's Novels by Siddhartha Sharma Pdf

The Present Book Seeks To Study The Feminist Perspective In Shashi Deshpande S Novels. It Reveals Deshpande S Sincerity And Ability In Voicing The Concerns Of The Urban Educated Middle-Class Woman. Trapped Between Tradition And Modernity, Her Sensitive Heroines Are Fully Conscious Of Being Victims Of Gross Gender Discrimination Prevalent In A Conservative Male-Dominated Society. A Culture-Specific Approach Has Been Adopted To Unravel Shashi Deshpande S Pragmatic Resolution Related To The Modern Indian Woman S Beleaguered Existence. The Book, It Is Hoped, Will Make A Rich Contribution To Women S Studies.

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 0143064258

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Moving On by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Shashi Deshpande&Rsquo;S Novel Is About The Secret Lives Of Men And Women Who Love, Hate, Plot And Debate With An Intensity That Will Absorb Every Reader. It Is A Story That Begins, Conventionally Enough, With A Woman&Rsquo;S Discovery Of Her Father&Rsquo;S Diary. As Manjari Unlocks The Past Through Its Pages, Rescuing Old Memories And Recasting Events And Responses, The Present Makes Its Own Demands: A Rebellious Daughter, Devious Property Sharks And A Lover Who Threatens To Throw Her Life Out Of Gear Again. The Ensuing Struggle To Reconcile Nostalgia With Reality And The Fire Of The Body With The Desire For Companionship Races To An Unexpected Resolution, Twisting And Turning Through Complex Emotional Landscapes. In Moving On Shashi Deshpande Explodes The Stereotypes Of Familial Bonds With An Uncanny Insight Into The Nature Of Human Relationships And An Equally Unerring Eye For Detail.

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143029525

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Collected Stories by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Not Many Readers Of Shashi Deshpande May Be Aware That Her First Experiments In Writing Fiction Started With The Short Story. Over The Years, She Has Published About A Hundred Stories In Literary Journals, Magazines And Newspapers, In Between Writing Her Immensely Popular Novels Which Are Now Read All Over The World, And Taught In Universities Wherever Indian Writing Has An Audience. In This Collection We Find Shashi Deshpande At Her Best, Writing With Subtlety And A Rare Sensitivity About Men And Women Trapped In Relationships And Situations Often Not Of Their Making. The Wife Of A Successful Politician Who Must Look To A Long-Lost Past In Order To Keep Up The Pretence Of Contentment; A Little Girl Who Cannot Comprehend Why The Very Fact Of Her Being Born Is A Curse; A Young Man Whose Fantasy Of Love Drives Him To Murder; A Newly-Wed Couple With Dramatically Differing Views On What It Means To Get To Know Each Other Every One Of The Characters Here Is Delineated With Lucidity And Compassion. Written Over The Past Three Decades, The Stories In This Volume Provide An Insight Into Often Forgotten Aspects Of Human Feelings And Relationships, Weaving A Magical Web Of Emotions That Is Testimony To The Unusual Depth And Range Of Shashi Deshpande S Writing.