Family Relationship in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors

Abstract

Abstract

Indian English literature is a fast growing discipline at the levels of creativity and criticism. Indian women novelists have given a new dimension to the Indian literature. Women novelists have incorporated the recurring female experience in their writings which affected the culture and language patterns of Indian literature. In the middle of nineteenth century, more women writers began to write in the English language. Women’s novels encompass the latest burning issues related with women. Typical male writers depict women as stereotyped one. After the arrival of women writers, women are portrayed as strong and active. They feel that women are an equal competent just like men. Shashi Deshpande tries to break the long silence of women in our country. Her novels are about women, who are trying to understand themselves, their history, their roles and their places in this society and above all their relationship with others. Her female characters have their inner conflict and quest for identity.