TRAUMA OF GENDER: A FEMINISTIC STUDY OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THAT LONG SILENCE

Abstract

In this research paper, I am set to explore the saturation of women in India through the character Jaya in that long silence. This is the story of the journey of a girl Jaya, from her childhood to her adulthood who faced a lot of suppression and her problems continued from her being a girl to her married life with Mohan. She was mechanized to keep quiet all her life till the very end. In the end of the story, she broke her ‘that long silence’ to stand against her husband Mohan for his malpractices in the business and ends up looking at her whole life with a new perspective.

Before I start to analyze the text, to support my question, I would like to throw some light on the current position of women in India and the movements that initiated the feminist movement in India.