Gendered Realities, Human Spaces: The Writing of Shashi Deshpande

"Gendered realities, human spaces: the writing of shashi deshpande works through a close reading of her fiction, her non-fiction and interviews in order to interrogate the strengths and limits of feminist positions. It goes on to free Deshpandes work from a reading confined only to the woman question and opens it out to aesthetic evaluations and sociocultural histories. Jain takes up the position that Deshpandes work makes a significant contribution to the novel of becoming, and she has moved beyond the given of gender, of stereotypical role models, even beyond androgyny to assert the right of woman as woman to a human space in the larger world. Even as images of domesticity and marital unhappiness are explored, the task of deconstructing and dismantling these confining spaces goes on. She uses the cultural heritage, so often described as Indianness, to subvert patriarchal hegemony and counter the male imagination of sociocultural realities with a womans view of the same. ThJain, Jasbir is the author of 'Gendered Realities, Human Spaces: The Writing of Shashi Deshpande', published 2003 under ISBN 9788170337980 and ISBN 8170337984.