Writing Difference: The Novels of Shashi Deshapande

Contents: 1. Writing and activism/Shashi Deshpande. 2. Cultural rooting/routing through English: The writing of Shashi Deshpande/Jasbir Jain. 3. Gender, feminism and postcoloniality: a reading of Shashi Deshpande's novels/Shalmalee Palekar. 4. Writing a narrative and a self in silence: A reading of Shashi Deshpande/Kalidas Misra. 5. The body in Shashi Deshpande's the dark holds no terrors/Kailash C Baral. 6. Psychoanalytic regression and the finding of the true self in The Dark Holds No Terros: A Winnicottian study/Arindam Chatterji. 7. Reading into If I Die Today/Avadesh Kumar Singh. 8. The self as contestation in roots and shadows/Parag Moni Sarma. 9. The multi-coloured patchwork quilt: The narrative pattern in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence/Guru Charan Behera. 10. Come up and be dead: an exploration of human relationship/Rama Gautam. 11. The binding vine: multi-storied misunderstandings/A G Khan. 12. Shashi Deshpande's The Binding Vine and A Matter of Time: A reading in the postcolonial context/Vijay Guttal. 13. Conceptual blending and narratives: cognitive perspectives on Shashi Deshpande's A matter of time/Liza Das and Merry Baruah.14. Resistance and reconciliation: Shashi Deshpande's a matter of time and small remedies/Usha Bande. 15. 'Something happened': writing, repetition and recovery in Shashi Deshpande's small remedies/Bijay Danta.16. Moving on: an search of individual autonomy and self-realization/Chanchala K Naik.17. In conversation with Shashi Deshpande (3 June 2003)/Gita Viswanath. 

Examines the nuanced portraiture of women’s autonomy and responsibility, the enigmatic fissures in human relationships, and the challenging dilemmas of cultural representation in the entire oeuvre of Shashi Deshpande from The Dark Holds No Terrors to Small Remedies.