Issues Of Middle- Class raised in “A Matter of Time”:
The present paper deals with the way Shashi’s novel” A Matter of Time” is an exploration into the core of the mind of Indian woman. Here the inner life of middle-class women emotionally isolated from her family is reflected in the embryonic women represented by her daughters. It deals with the quest of identity of womankind.
The novel presents a social world of complex relationships. The women are caught in the process of redefining and rediscovery their roles, position and relationships. The language used is the very everyday used lingua-franca, to reach-out to the common woman and possibly also with the objective to make understandibility easier. We can correctly assume that it is the thinking Indian woman that the author aims to captivate with the problems faced by the middle-class woman. Raja Rao in his ‘preface’ to ‘Kanthapura’ declares, “ We cannot write like English. We should not.” Shashi herself said,” My writings comes out of the consciousness of the conflict between my idea of myself as a human being and the idea that society has of me as a woman. All this makes my writings very clearly woman’s writings.”
The story revolves around three generation of women. However, Deshpande tries to distance herself from women’s lives and point of view through the use of a male narrative. Which she admits is deliberate to give it multi-dimensional social picture.The story deals with world of mothers,wives, daughters and their relation with fathers,sons and husbands. The writer is mainly concerned with the clash of Tradition and modernity as reflected in the generation gap and conflict between women. The complexities of marriage, the trauma of a disturbed adolescence, the attempt to...
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Ms. Anna Merin Scaria M.Phil., Research Scholar & Dr. Sushil Mary Mathews, Associate Professor, Department of English, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore
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