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That Long Silence traces the passage of a woman through a maze of doubts and fears towards her affirmation. Viewing the man-woman relationship objectively, the novelist does not throw the blame entirely on men for the subjugation of women. She observes that both men and women find it difficult to outgrow the images and roles allotted to them by society. All the expression of concern for women is a raid upon this silence in Dun Long Silence. But Shashi Deshpande does it not by speaking against their silence on a public platform or through a handbill or a manifesto. Instead she maintains an aesthetic distance. She weaves the things into a metaphoric structure. It shows how the protagonist Jaya, after long, decides to break silence and give vent …show more content…

That Long Silence. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1989
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