Deshpande, Shashi

About Shashi Deshpande

Reviews

Datta, Sudipta. "Listen to Me." The Hindu, 12 Jan. 2019

"Shashi Deshpande's Autobiography." The Times of India, 13 Nov. 2018

Siddiqi, Shams Afif. "A Writer in Her Parlour." The Telegraph, 12 Mar. 2004

Bains, Rajdeep. "Women Writers as the Other." The Tribune, 29 Feb. 2004

Mukherjee, Meenakshi. "On Her Own Terms." The Hindu, 7 May 2000

Interviews

"Writing Like a Woman." The New Indian Express, 12 Dec. 2018

S., Bageshree. "'It Was Like Revisiting Old Friends'." The Hindu, 9 Apr. 2016

Singh, Manpreet J. "On Concerns and Creativity: An Interview with Shashi Deshpande". IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016

"Magical Terrains." The Hindu, 10 Oct. 2016

Anjum, Zafar. "Kitaab Interview with Shashi Deshpande." Kitaab, 3 Dec. 2014

Holm, Chandra. "Is Literature a Public Toilet that We Need to Have Signboards Saying Men and Women?" Outlook India, 21 Apr. 2001

Criticism

Gunaseelan, Poonkulaly. "Splitting/ Violating the 'New Indian Woman' in Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980)." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 66, no. 1, 2018

Geetanjali Singh, Chanda. "'Womenspace': Negotiating Class and Gender in Indian English Novels." Emerging South Asian Women Writers: Essays and Interviews, Jussawalla and Weagel (eds.), 2016

Ray, Swagata, and Eeshan Ali. "Four Walls and Woman: A Study of Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence." Debilitation of Ethics, Values, and Identity in the Postmodern Indian English Literature, Sattar and Ali (eds.), 2016

Kar, Babita, and Urvashi Kaushal. "Defining the New Woman: With Special Reference to the Major Works of Shashi Deshpande and Manju Kapur." Forum for World Literature Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2016

Ben-Yishai, Ayelet. "'By Its Very Presence': Conventionality and Commonality in Shashi Deshpande's Realism." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 52, no. 2, 2015

Jyoti, Kala. "Gender, Sex and the Psychodynamics of an Eternal Quest in The Dark Holds No Terror." Gendering the Narrative: Indian English Fiction and Gender Discourse, Mukherjee (ed.), 2015

Varughese, E. Dawson. "New India/n Woman: Agency and Identity in Post-Millennial Chick Lit." A History of the Indian Novel in English, Anjaria (ed.), 2015

Majumdar, Saikat. "Far from the Nation, Closer to Home: Privacy, Domesticity, and Regionalism in Indian English Fiction." A History of the Indian Novel in English, Anjaria (ed.), 2015

Sharma, Alpana. "The Modernism of Shashi Deshpande." South Asian Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2012

Batty, Nancy Ellen. The Ring of Recollection: Transgenerational Haunting in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande (2010)

Zare, Bonnie. "First Comes Marriage, Then Comes Emptiness: Identity Formation in Shashi Deshpande's Novels." South Asian Review, vol. 25, no. 2, 2004

Works

Autobiography/Life Writing

Listen to Me (2018)

Novels

Small Remedies (2000)

A Matter of Time (1999)

The Binding Vine (1992)

That Long Silence (1988)

Roots and Shadows (1983)

Come Up and Be Dead (1983)

If I Die Today (1982)

The Dark Holds no Terrors (1980)