Feminism In Shashi Deshpande

It explains that Ralindu’s mother wants to signify that she wants her daughter to be like her, following the traditions and manners of a Nigerian kid. Even though Ralindu’s mother kept scolding her about her actions, Ralindu still follow what she to be like, to be a typical American kid. In the end of the story, Ralindu wishes to have a mother like Cathy’s mother who grounds their children as a punishment. This show that Ralindu wants her mother to act differently and be more of a typical American mother like Cathy’s. Adichie portrays how some parents want their children to follow the same culture they grew up with and how it created conflict between the relationship of the parent and the

This type of upbringing would lead one to believe that her life would not amount to anything and torn by the fact that she was not residing with her family. However, subconsciously, when she needed reassurance, her paternal mother’s words to her would always surface in her mind, “Sunshine, you’re my baby and I’m your only mother, but you must obey the one taking care of you but she is not your mama”.

Sudha and Anju are cousins who share a mysterious fate. When news of their fathers’ deaths reached their mother’s household; the two were born on the same day. It is later discovered that Sudha’s father lied about being related to Anju’s father and that the two, died while looking for rubies in order to “redeem himself with his wife and brother “ (32). As a result of knowing the secret, Sudha begins to sacrifice her happiness for the sake of other's happiness. When she receives a marriage proposal, she sacrifices her dreams of going to college and marrying her supposed love of her life. "I'm all my mother has. I just don't want her to feel that I too have turned against her" (73).

In the story of “Sundiata”, two mothers are said to play a significant role in the life of their children. The mothers are Sogolon (sundiata’s mother), and Sassouma (Dankaran Touman’s mother). The mothers in the story of “Sundiata” influence the life and development of their children by changing destiny, providing protection and building up their children’s strength.

In the novels of Shashi Despande , Silence is the theme which can easily be felt by the readers throughout her novels. Breaking of silence by her protagonists in different ways makes their voice heard by everyone. So far as women’s work, speech,

The narrator, a young girl named Nea, starts the story in the middle of action. She told that she stabbed a man with knife at eleven years old in order to release her older sister, Sourdi, from the man. “I charged and stabbed the man in the sleeve” (9). This situation is not only a introduction of this story to the readers, but the further explanation of the events explains each of the characters involved in this story. The main character of this story is Ma, who willing to sacrifice Sourdi’s happiness in order to please the man in the society. Next, Sourdi is another main character in this story. She has beautiful face that attracted the attention from admirers throughout this story. Then, Nea is also main character in this story. She is impulsive young girl who reacts in rash to protect her sister from the men that can threaten their relationship.

For example, Sidda had the difficult life with her parent when she was young and that makes her relationships deteriorate when she grew up. Therefore, a negative relationship with family members, especially with adult children, can be harmed and that lead to negative results in the future. On the other hand, a mother's sisters had the big role for the family reunion. From time to time, it does not take an excessive amount of imagination to connect the dots between a cutting-edge turmoil and the childhood experiences that began a down that direction. For example, Sidda understands the depth of her mother’s suffering when she was reminded beautiful times in the past with her mom by sisters and that memories helped Sidda to forgive her mom faults and stop wasting money for a

Djinda didn’t think her mother needed her anymore, her feet tapped against the wooden floor and headed into the kitchen. Her mother had received all these old appliances from an aunt who had died when Djinda had barely been one; she hadn’t been in any contact with any other family members – only her father. Djinda didn’t know her mother’s father but her father often told her he was a bad man; he could hurt her given the chance.

Although Safie’s true nature is never told, she relates that the lessons of her mother “were indelibly impressed” on her mind (127). Her mother’s conscientious nurturing had a firm impact on her life. Unlike the others though, it benefited her in the end and delivered her from the constraints of her father and

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

The protagonist, Eloisa, is trapped and controlled to an extreme, to the point where the only part of the outside world she gets to see are the people she sees at church. Eloisa wants nothing more than to find a man who will see her for who she is, no matter what her mother thinks. When she invites the peddler’s wife inside so that she can buy a dress her mother stands at the door without moving, she blocked any access to the house, her despotic tone of voice containing a quality stronger than her presence there before the closed door. Her look was mocking” (Jara 216). This shows how restricting her mother is; how Eloisa is so isolated that her mother does not let her bring anyone into the house. After Eloisa is given the dress she is told “‘[not to] show it to [her] mother, don’t tell her a thing. She’s capable of ripping it up… [that she is] too old to be afraid of her mother’”(221). It is obvious that Eloisa is scared of what her mother thinks; that her mother is so overpowering that she is not allowed to make her own decisions and have her own thoughts.

Deshpande's concern and sympathy are primarily for the woman in whatever circumstances she might be placed or whatever role in the society she might be playing. While revealing the woman's struggle to secure self-respect and self-identity for herself through her protagonists, the author subtly unravels the multiple levels of oppression, including sexual oppression experienced by women in our society thus creating a new social awareness. This stance of Deshpande makes her a potential feminist writer creating a woman's world with loving, care and a soothing touch depicting the nuances of her consciousness while advocating her liberation from the meticulously concocted web of imposed socio-cultural orders that have existed over centuries. From

As seen by many different mothers in the novel Sula by author Toni Morrison, mothers play an important part in kid’s life, shaping how they view different beliefs in the world and setting up values in their child. Every individual’s life is shaped by personal relationships they have with others. The mother and child relationship greatly affects the identity development in the kid. As seen in the racist community in the novel, the mother and kid relationship is important in the sense that the mothers and children share understanding of the sexist oppression, intertwining their lives together even more than they

The first major traumatic event that has effect on her life is death of her father. When her father passed away she makes decision to held detective agency. For example, when her father says her that sell the cattle and makes her own business. This shows she wants to live base on her father’s request although the cattle is so expensive and she can keep and make money of that. In addition death of her father causes she

She makes an important point when trying to go beyond the female (otherness), by paying careful attention to differences among women themselves, and by putting emphasize on the multiple realties that women faces, and by that trying to uncover universalist interpretations (Parpart and Marchand 1995:6). She reveals the inadequacy of binary categories by showing us how power is defined in binary terms, between the people who have (men) and the people who do not (women). This is a consequence of seeing women as a homogenous group, and contributes to the reinforcement of the binary division between men and women (Mohanty 1991:64). By assuming that women are a already constituted group with the same experiences and interests, gender is looked upon as something that can be applied cross cultures (Mohanty 1991:54), and it also produces an assumption about the “average third world woman” as poor and uneducated, in contrast to the educated, modern Western women (Mohanty 1991:56). Implicit in the binary analytic lies the assumption that the third world woman only can be liberated through western rationality. Mohanty is making an important point when emphasising the need to challenge these objectifications (Udayagiri 1995:163).