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@article{197341,
        author = {Dr.N.Seetha},
        title = {Female Trauma and Silence in Shashi Deshpande’s ‘The Binding Vine’},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {8592-8595},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=197341},
        abstract = {Shashi Deshpande focuses her attention on middle-class women’s problems and experiences they face in their families and society. There may be three reasons for Shashi Deshpande to portray the middle-class educated woman. Firstly, she has come from a middle-class family. Secondly, the middle-class women form a larger part of contemporary Indian society. Thirdly, the middle-class woman seems to be the fit subject to explain the conflict between tradition and modernity. She presents the psychological problems of the individual mind in her novels. Her women struggle for their rights in a conventional society. They try to transcend it but fail. They however work hard to prove their individuality. They fight against the norms and conventions of society. But, ultimately they compromise with the traditional and societal codes. She describes such a woman’s inner world in her novels. The Binding Vine focuses on the disturbed minds of the women characters. Urmila fights the despair caused by her daughter’s loss in her gloomy domestic atmosphere, without having a supporting husband. The novel describes the mental trauma of her character who is affected by forced marriage and also clearly explores multiple forms of female trauma such as psychological, sexual, marital emotional and generational trauma.},
        keywords = {Conventional Society, Compromise, predicament, submissiveness, oppression, economic independent},
        month = {April},
        }