From Trauma to Self-Realization: Women In Shashi Deshpande’S Fiction

Rupinder  Kaur

From Trauma to Self-Realization: Women In Shashi Deshpande’S Fiction

Exploring Identity and Self-Discovery in Shashi Deshpande's Women-centric Fiction

by Rupinder Kaur*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 5, Issue No. 10, Apr 2013, Pages 0 - 0 (0)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals

ABSTRACT

I’m not writing of all those innocent young girls I’vewritten of till now; girls who ultimately mated themselves with the rightmen. Nor am I writing a story of acallous, insensitive husband and a sensitive, suffering wife. I’m writing of us. Of Mohan and me. And I know this – you can never be theheroine of your own story. Self-revelation is a cruel process. The realpicture, the real ‘you’ never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you reallylook. Ten different mirrors show you tendifferent faces.1 (TLS-1)

KEYWORD

trauma, self-realization, women, Shashi Deshpande's fiction, innocent young girls, mating, right men, acallous husband, sensitive wife, Mohan, self-revelation, cruel process, real picture, bewildering, ten different mirrors, different faces