A Radical Feminist approach on Lost Identity of Women Depicted in Shashi Deshpande's novel "ROOTS AND THE SHADOWS"
| Main Authors: | mobinajahan, saman salah |
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| Format: | Article eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3673734 |
Daftar Isi:
- Indian English novelists give the clear picture and a brutal truth of the society and the culture. Woman writers proved their worth by enriching Indian English fiction by their memorable work. Shashi Deshpande is one of the contemporary and emerging women writers in India who are writing in English. This paper manages to explore the hard-hitting truths of women and their rights being exploited in a male dominating society as portrayed in the novel "Roots and the Shadow" by Shashi Deshpande (1983). Many other writers have depicted identity crisis and existentialism in their works like T.S Eliot, W.H Auden, Robert Frost, and Anita Desai. As even in today’s modern world women has lost her identity her “I”, due to which she cannot possess her wants and her needs, either socially, economically or sexually as the society and the culture has kept their evil eye on her. Thus, a woman is lacking adequate living and liberation. This research has highlighted the issue of "identity crisis" in women especially after marriage when she is enforced to obey her husband and do as the Man wants and wishes from her. This research is conducted under the Theoretical framework of Radical Feminism and the lost identity of protagonist Indu in the novel using a qualitative mode of inquiry. The novel and the character of Indu is analyzed through content analysis. Basically, due to some orthodox thinking women are suffering from identity crisis and face loneliness and hollowness in their life under patriarchy. This study provides awareness about women rights and the causes of identity crisis in this modern world.Indian English novelists give the clear picture and a brutal truth of the society and the culture. Woman writers proved their worth by enriching Indian English fiction by their memorable work. Shashi Deshpande is one of the contemporary and emerging women writers in India who are writing in English. This paper manages to explore the hard-hitting truths of women and their rights being exploited in a male dominating society as portrayed in the novel "Roots and the Shadow" by Shashi Deshpande (1983). Many other writers have depicted identity crisis and existentialism in their works like T.S Eliot, W.H Auden, Robert Frost, and Anita Desai. As even in today’s modern world women has lost her identity her “I”, due to which she cannot possess her wants and her needs, either socially, economically or sexually as the society and the culture has kept their evil eye on her. Thus, a woman is lacking adequate living and liberation. This research has highlighted the issue of "identity crisis" in women especially after marriage when she is enforced to obey her husband and do as the Man wants and wishes from her. This research is conducted under the Theoretical framework of Radical Feminism and the lost identity of protagonist Indu in the novel using a qualitative mode of inquiry. The novel and the character of Indu is analyzed through content analysis. Basically, due to some orthodox thinking women are suffering from identity crisis and face loneliness and hollowness in their life under patriarchy. This study provides awareness about women rights and the causes of identity crisis in this modern world.