Shashi Deshpande is the best known contemporary Indian woman novelist. She is the recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel That Long Silence. This novel has been acclaimed by critics as the manifesto of Indian feminism. The present book offers a detailed study of the novel that adds to the fast growing corpus of feminist criticism and women’s studies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Santwana Haldar
Santwana Haldar teaches English at F.M. (Autonomous) College, Balasore. She is an erudite scholar and perceptive critic of fiction. She is widely published, especially in the area of the new literatures. Her articles on V.S. Naipaul, Saiman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and Jhumpa Lahiri have been published recently, in reputed journals.
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