Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: That Long Silence written by one of the most notable contemporary Indian women novelists, Shashi Deshpande, bagged Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990. The novel presents an account of the life of Jaya using first person narrative. It has been mostly read from feminist perspective; critics focused their attention on the themes of generational silencing of women and silence, used by the women characters, as a strategy for their survival. The present study intends to move this focus from silence to the dialogue that runs, at different levels, throughout the novel.
Author: Dr. Mamta Dr. Mamta
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414047993