Writing difference: the novels of Shashi Deshpande / edited by Chanchala K. Naik

Includes index

Writing and activism -- Shashi Deshpande Cultural rooting/routing through english: the writing of Shashi Deshpande -- Jasbir Jain Gender, feminism and postcoloniality: a reading of shashi Deshpande's novels -- Shalmalee Palekar Writing a narrative and a self in silence: a reading of Shashi Deshpande -- Kalidas Misra The body in Shashi Deshpande's The dark holds no terrors -- Kailash C. Baral Psychoanalytic regression and the finding of the true self in The dark holds no terrors: a winnicottian study -- Arindam Chatterji Reading into If I die today -- Avadhesh Kumar Singh The self as contestation in Roots and shadows -- Parag Moni Sarma The multicoloured patchwork quilt: The narrative pattern in Shashi Deshpande's That long silence -- Guru Charan Behera Come up and be dead: an exploration of human relationship -- Rama Gautam The binding vine: multi-storied misunderstandings -- A. G. Khan Shashi Deshpande's The binding vine and A matter of time: a reading in the postcolonial context -- Vijaya Guttal Conceptual blending and narratives: cognitive perspectives on Shashi Deshpande's A matter of time -- Liza Das and Merry Baruah Resistance and reconciliation: Shashi Deshpande's A matter of time and small remedies -- Usha Bande 'Something happened': writing, repetition and recovery in Shashi Deshpande's Small remedies -- Bijay Danta Moving on: In search of individual autonomy and self-realization -- Chanchala K. Naik In conversation with Shashi Deshpande (3 June 2003) -- Gita Viswanath