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being a woman writer
Deshpande has been labeled a feminist because of her concern with women characters and the situations in which they find themselves. She believes that she simply writes about what she sees around her, and that her ideas follow naturally...
| "I did not start writing as a feminist: I was a writer first. I wasn't very familiar even with the word feminism, this was in the 60s, I don't think it was very common in India as it is now. But I was writing about what I saw, what I felt, what I had begun thinking, and I was very uneasy about my own roles as wife and mother, which was all that I was supposed to be, and I knew I was not that. And so I think my writing came out of this, and that out of this articulation of ideas and thoughts that my feminism emerged"
Shashi Deshpande |
Her work has helped to break the silence on some women's issues which were not discussed in the past, and to raise people's awareness.
Links
Biography, Reviews, Interviews and links to Essays
By Chandra Holm
The Short Stories of Shashi Deshpande
By Chandra Holm
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