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Of all the poets in the last 50 years in the Indian landscape, I find Kamala Das the most refreshing. She is the disruptor, iconoclast, gadfly, enfant terrible of Indian English poetry. It is true that she rattled many cages, and these were the cages in which she and countless other women and even men in the Indian society have been imprisoned for years. She tried to break the exo-skeleton in which we all must fit in, suffocated in our own falsehoods and inability to look at things as they are. Because the exo-skeleton, while it gives security for a while, also stunts growth. One needs to shed it when one is ready and find a bigger, roomier space. Until one grows further and finds its expanded space too a limit.
Abstract- Kamala Das is one of the most prominent and debated figure in postcolonial Indian English poetry. Who writes with honesty and bold manner rarely in Indian context. She blend her personal experiences and observations in her poetry in a way it is become universal. Her depiction of woman is the typical answer to the subaltern and subsidiary voice of woman. She represents the modern women’s voice who wants to free her from the religious and social convention. Kamala Das takes the reader into the space of her private life and discloses the delicate facts of personal trauma and childhood suppression. She became the oppressed voice of woman and depict the universal sufferings of womanhood, women‘s struggle is to find their identity and their ―Self in a rebellious way. This paper aims to explore how Kamala Das sensitively point out the plight of woman whose status is prejudice in the religious and social obligation. Keyword-womanhood, sufferings, ill-treatment, equality, society, violence
The 'defiant' stance of the Post-colonial Indian women poets is manifest in terms of bold pronouncement of feminine urges, feelings, experiences, perceptions and viewpoints in their poetic expressions. Among the modern Indian women poets writing in English, Kamala Das is the first one who dared to speak out for those women who refuse to be tethered to the orthodoxy of tradition. The present paper appreciates Kamala Das's rebellious attitude in her poetry with reference to the socio-literary background of Indian woman-hood. It is interesting to analyze her poetry in the perspective of various socio-cultural factors that have shaped the feminine consciousness of Indian women through the ages resulting into the evolution of a poetic tradition of their own. Das tears herself off from the romantic-idealist tradition of the pre-Independence women poets and offers a realistic and concrete portrayal of contemporary feminine experience, particularly in the ambit of man-woman relationship. The poet gives voice to those who strive to come out of the identity crisis as woman positioned in a patriarchal frame of reference.
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Kamala Das occupies a unique position among the women poets of the post-independence period. She had very boldly and honestly voiced the issues of male-dominant Indian society, where a woman is expected to be submissive, subservient and docile. One can mark the fierceness, lack of inhibition, the freshness of description, compelling originality, sincerity, existential crises, identity crises, alienation, and elements of confession in her poetry. She has an efficient command of verse, language and technique. She is a voice to the unspoken, unuttered, buried and painful experiences of the common Indian woman. The present investigation highlights the elements of alienation and existential crises that are the product of her fierceness and quest for love. "Her poetry voices to the full not only the existential pressure generated during the modern Indian women's journey from tradition to modernity but even the Indian woman poet's sense of commitment to reality." [1].
Abstract: In this paper an endeavor has been made to analyze the poetry of Kamala Das with a feminine perspective. Though she composed only a handful of poems yet it is suffice to unleash her feelings. It tells aloud her genuine feelings towards the society she inhabits, the norms and values she was compelled to internalize. Her poems speak not only of her traumatic sufferings but of the entire female folk. Thus, she can be regarded as the mouth-piece of her society. She has set the path to be followed by the writers to come. Thus, this paper seeks to explore the feminine dimension of her poetical composition. Keywords: rebellious, hierarchies, callousness, feminine sensibility,
The Expression: An International Multidisciplinary e-Journal
Kamala Das’ Poetry: A Feminist Perspective2022 •
Kamala Surayya, or Kamala Das, was a prominent Indian poet and writer who used her work to challenge the patriarchal norms of Indian society. Her poetry, particularly in collections like "Summer in Calcutta," "The Descendants," and "The Old Playhouse and Other Poems," is marked by a strong feminist ethos that celebrates the power, autonomy, and agency of women. In her poetry, Kamala Das critiques the restrictive gender roles imposed on women by society, and advocates for the freedom and self-expression of women. She often uses her own experiences and emotions to illuminate the struggles and triumphs of women everywhere. Her poetry also explores themes of love, sexuality, and identity, often defying societal norms and taboos. One of the key ways in which Kamala Das subverts patriarchy in her poetry is through her depiction of female desire and sexuality. She openly writes about her own sexual experiences and desires, challenging the traditional notion of women as passive and chaste. Through her poetry, Kamala Das empowers women to embrace their sexuality and reject the shame and stigma attached to it. Kamala Das' poetry is replete with feministic ethos. Her poetry is remarkably realistic and feministic. The paper aims at a feminist reading of Kamala Das' poetry whereby she effectively subverts the ingrained elements of patriarchy, privileging female will, choice and strength.
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Literature is the boon for the writers to express their creative writing which is the work of creative imagination that represents language, people, culture and tradition and it introduces a new world of experience. Writers write to inspire people and it pushes them beyond the barriers of everyday existence into a world of what might be. It is the world of opportunity, an infinite variety of may be ‘s and what if‘s and a vast plain of words that might help describe the world in which we live.
International Journal of Humanities in Technical Education
Redefining Womanhood-A Reading of Kamala Das's Poetry2020 •
This paper attempts to examine the issues of feminism in India and the position of women in the Indian society in the light of Kamala Das’s poetry. Post-Independence, Indian women writers have exhibited a strong sense of freedom and self-dependence of thought and action in their works. Kamala Das’s poetry is a symbol of reliance, intellectual freedom and empowerment of Indian women. This is an endeavour to analyse how Kamala Das redefines womanhood in her poetry through the use of concrete imagery, symbols and her crisp and novel ideas about women, their position in a male-dominated Indian society and many other issues surrounding her and many other women of the country. Key-words: Feminism, Womanhood, Kamala Das, Poetry, Indian Writing in English.
Akshara, No. 11-12
Feminist Voice in the Poetry of Kamala DasThe present paper peeps into the poetry of Kamala Das where she mainly deals with the feminist voice and the 'women questions' of love. She talks about the unsentimental, uninhibited expression of love, sex, emotional sterility in marital relationship. She talks about the trials and tribulations of the woman who struggles hard to find a place in the male dominated society. In her poetry, she not only expresses her feminine sensibility but the unfulfilled desires lying dormant in the unconscious mind. Her candid confessional revelations give a new dimension to her poetry. She explores herself through self-introduction and self-analysis. This paper explores the female psyche where rests an anxiety to care for her 'self' and to carve a space for herself in the patriarchal society. It depicts the agony of woman's heart, her emotional insecurity and loneliness. The poetry of Kamala Das is remarkable for the woman's quest for freedom and demand for the status of a human being.
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