Intersection of class and community in Shashi Deshpande's novels
Автор:Grishma Khobragade Год: 2012 Издание:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 184 ISBN: 9783659132346 It is proposed to study mainly the fiction of Shashi Deshpande with the reference to the intersection of class and community in Indian social system. The issues of class and community did not largely perturb Indian society in pre-independence period. However, the Indian English novels produced after independence depicted a successful paradigm shift to reveal the social changes. Contemporary Indian English novel portrays images of protagonists confined to rigid tradition and orthodoxy. The novels produced after independence show that the western culture has been partly assimilated by Indians. Post Independence Indian society also witnessed a new social order coming into existence. It was also to see the emergence of new patterns of class structure and the formation of new communities according to the changing patterns of life. The present study attempts to focus on Deshpande’s novels in terms of their thematic and political concerns. In addition, the study investigates the...
