SHASHI DESHPANDE’S “STRANGERS TO OURSELVES “AS A NOVEL OF COMPLEX INEXPLICABLE MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS”
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
Shashi Deshpande is a Sahithya academy award –winning Indian woman novelist. Her novels deal with the theme of marriage and marital relationships, to be true, ideally, marriage is a beautiful thing. It is a kind of friendship, an opposite sex, people with different tastes, interests, attitudes, likes, and dislikes. It plays a vital role in the life of men and woman. It is a turning point in the life of the woman. The objective of this paper is to explain the intricate and inexplicable marital relationships in the recent novel “Strangers to ourselves” (2015). Deshpande’s literary world is positioned from a woman’s perspectives.
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