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Negotiating Female ‘Space’ in Shashi Deshpande’sThe Miracle & Other Stories: A Reappraisal
Lovleen Bains
The quest for freedom and self assertion is the dominating theme that almost every female writer of the post- modern era has tried to express in magnificent proportions.
Women writers have opened new vistas to explore the question of identity and stability. Writers as Anita Desai, Gita Mehta, Rama Mehta, Shashi Deshpande and many others have tried to explore the complex identity of women in the patriarchal set up and the tabooed social system.
Deshpande in this novel comments on the issues like sexual violence, rape and society and marriage in Indian society.The fact that Shashi Deshpande’s writings stand apart from other writers is that she writes whatever she feels. While Desai tries to take refuge in alienation, Rama Mehta in spirituality, Deshpande’s women try to negotiate space with a sensible understanding of human relations.
This study deals with this new generation of women depicted by Deshpande in her stories especially “The Miracle
