Feminism

Women’s ordeals in Binding vine All Sashi Deshpande’s works deal with the problems and issues of contemporary middle class women. Her heroines are sensitive, intelligent and career-oriented. She poignantly expresses the frustration and disappointments of women and describes their bitter experience in the male-dominated society. This novel ‘The Binding Vine ’ shows how a woman of good education and earning could react to the so-called issues against women in the male chauvinistic society, thereby inculcating the spirit of solidarity among women and ushering in an assured secure world to all women. While depicting the agony of a wife, who is the victim of marital rape, she portrays the plight of women raped outside marriage and those who would rather suffer in silence in the name of the family honour. In her essay “sister hood”, Bellhooks writes; …Sexism is perpetrated by institutional and social structures, by the individuals who dominate, exploit, or oppress, and by...

1.1 Indian Writing in English, a Survey: Indo-English fiction owes its origin to the translations of various fictional works from Indian languages into English. It originated and grew up under the tutelage of British. Bengali novelist Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s "Rajmohan’s Wife" registered its first appearance in 1864, which created a history whose roots have gone deep enough till this day. Influenced by the greatness of the audience and fascinated by the global claim, a handsome number of Indian novelists then rendered their creativity into English. One among them was Rabindarnar Tagore who made a great impact on it. He translated his novels, which were originally written in Bengali. His novels, `Gora’, `The Wreck’, `The Home’ and `The World’ and his short stories are of this sort. K.S. Ramamurthi observes: "The rise of the novel as an art form in the Indian literary scene was itself not an isolated historical event caused by the imitative impulses of the writers wh...