Eco-Feminism in the Short Stories of Shashi Deshpande

Abstract

One of the noteworthy types of writings is short story. The short story has made a long journey to reach in the cutting edge world. The Indian short story in English can be said to have started to in the 1920s and there was a solid move from a liberal humanism towards a woman's rights that was established not in any given hypotheses but rather in unequivocal ideological premises. The present paper is an endeavor to depict the picture of women's status in the sociocultural, financial, political and mental settings as portrayed in the short stories of Shashi Deshpande. Scholars like Tagore, Sarat Chandra, and Chalam and later numerous women journalists started depicting the women as people with their own preferences and individual sentiments Shashi Deshpande, the Sahitya Academy Award-winning Indian woman writer in English began her vocation as a short story writer with her first short story in 1970, at this point she wrote nine short story collections, twelve books and four books for youngsters. In her works, women characters show inward quality, boldness, certainty, solidarity, and assurance.
The short stories of Shashi Deshpande outline the socio-cultural topics and organizations, for example, home, family, a society of Indian white-collar classes. Her works dwell upon conventional, urban circumstances, as well as originate from a firm conviction that our lives are, all things considered, represented by sex. The paper likewise means to comprehend and assess how the women characters in the short stories of Shashi Deshpande are dealt with and impacted by the socio-cultural matrix.