In The Ring of Recollection , Nancy Batty challenges the critical orthodoxy that Shashi Deshpande's fiction is transparently realistic and narrowly focused on domestic and women's issues. This study shifts attention towards the labyrinthine structur
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In The Ring of Recollection , Nancy Batty challenges the critical orthodoxy that Shashi Deshpande's fiction is transparently realistic and narrowly focused on domestic and women's issues. This study shifts attention towards the labyrinthine structur
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Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Kernel, the Shell, and a "fish-stinking ring" - Notes Toward a Cryptomimetic Reading of Deshpande's Fiction; 2 Haunted Beginnings - The Roots of Domestic Terror in Deshpande's Early Fiction; 3 "I am like a house full of unclean things, never cleaned, never opened" - The Maternal Crypt in The Dark Holds No Terrors; 4 "you can never be the heroine of your own story" - Peering Into the Other's Crypt in That Long Silence
5 "This book is mine as all can tell, if you steal it you will go to hell" - Transgressing the Other's Crypt in The Binding Vine 6 "What could my mother be to yours?" - Disinheriting the Phantom in A Matter of Time; 7 "healing in the words" - Deshpande's Contract with the Dead in Small Remedies; Coda - "Still it moves"; Works Cited; Index
