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A Search for an Indianness in the poetry and autobiography of Kamla Das

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The purpose of the present study is to find out the elements of feminism in the literature of Kamala Das. Her poetry and autobiography deal with her quest for love, betrayal in man-woman relationship, Gender Discrimination, her anguish towards this inequality, her rebel to the conventional rules set up by patriarchy, her frankness to the sexual urges and intensely personal voice. Kamala Das expressed in her poetry about the position of women and resist the dominance of male oriented society. She expressed her inner conflicts that doubt the audacity of religious writings which treats woman as creator and destroyer but in reality, women are given inferior position in society and the family. She is amongst very few Indian women who voiced the feminist moment in India under the western influence during the second wave of feminism. It seems she has a remarkable influence of feminists like Simone

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Matthew Arnold defines culture as, "a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our own stock notions and habits" (Wikipedia). Unfortunately, this dynamic picture of culture has never been possessed in true sense; because the history of culture, since the formation of organized societies anywhere in the world, has been the history of cultural domination and suppression. The proponents of cultural values find their own culture better than those of others. They spread and impose these values in the name of truth with the help of ideological and repressive state apparatus. India has been maintaining its patriarchal culture since centuries; and women have been made the worst victims of it. Women, because of the dominance of these men-centric societal rules and norms, are pushed to periphery and forced to live the life of a second-class citizen. Some women have raised their voices against these atrocities and defied to obey the illogical patriarchal rules. Kamla Das, a vocal Indian poetess who herself has been a victim of such binary cultural norms, has expressed her egalitarian thoughts in many of her poems. She writes freely about the needs and desires of women and finds patriarchal society responsible behind the maldevelopment of its society in general and women in particular.

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The present paper is intended at unfolding the selective linguistic and stylistic features that are apparent in the poetry of Kamala Das based on detailed analysis of a few of her representative poems. The poems selected for the analysis from her poetry volume symbolize a variety of subjects treated by Kamala Das and are of adequate length to hold most distinguishing features of her style. Her present volume deal with personal anguish and dilemma in love business as found in her first poetic corpus. The most of her poems give ample evidence to her painstaking efforts with life to rise the above of mundane problems she tries to seek a smooth way for her life-journey on an ideal path outshines every sphere. In Indian English literature, Kamala Das’ most remarkable achievement is her own sense of writing in Indian English. Often her expressions, idioms, choice of verbs and syntactical structure are part of what has been termed the ‘Indianisation of English’. This is indeed a act of acc...

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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

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Writing was a way for Kamala Das (1932-2009) to celebrate her selves. Kamala Das's poems is like reading multiple entities. Readers may get a peek of Kamala Das's various personas through her prose and poetry, whether they were written in Malayalam or English. Through her poetry, she allowed us to see many different sides of herself, including those of a poet, lover, devotee, young lady, wife, mother, middle-aged woman, urbanite, Keralite, and others. Her poetry is overtly physical, dripping with the fluidity of existence itself and bridging the gap between the intellect and body. She is a fragile woman, a lonely poet, and an introvert starving for companionship. She is a rebel at the same time, a sturdy woman who shouts out her claim to the right to speak and write. The employment of multiple identities, equally varied tongues, different experimental patterns, free verse and numerous devices by Kamala Das to create countless moods for her poetry is what makes them extraordinary and one-of-a-kind. The following paper tries to discuss selected poems of Kamala Das and discover how in Kamala Das's poetry, a 'sinner' becomes a 'saint' and vice versa, a 'beloved' gets 'betrayed', how there are a number of entities in there, literally: the Aami, the Kamala Surayya, the Madhavikkutty and the Kamala Das, and how at the end of the thoughts everything melts into each other.

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Indian English poetry became popular with Dutt sisters, Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu etc., still seems to flower its genius by its practitioners. Sri Aurobindo and Tagore inaugurated an era which could not sustain itself to a longer periodicity of time. Scriptural consciousness as reflected in both the poets is the key to Indianness. Dr. Charu Sheel Singh is a key to nurture the tradition and renews an old link that was broken in between but in poet's own style and language which magnifies his visionary approach. He invented a new kind of poetry. It is not the beautiful world of flowers, fairies, and nature; it is about the projection of social normative that has withstood various periods of time. Moreover, it is about the interior landscape that fore grows us as human beings. Through his poetic collections, the poet has suggested that only through peace one can restore life and rebirth of the barren land of our own making.

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Kamala Das (born March 31, 1934, Thrissur , Malabar Coast [now in Kerala], British India—died May 31, 2009, Pune , India) was an Indian author who wrote openly and frankly about female sexual desire and the experience of being an Indian woman. Das was part of a generation of Indian writers whose work centred on personal rather than colonial experiences, and her short stories, poetry , memoirs, and essays brought her respect and notoriety in equal measures. Das wrote both in English (mostly poetry) and, under the pen name Madhavikutty, in the Malayalam language of southern India .

Das was born into a high-status family. Her mother, Nalapat Balamani Amma, was a well-known poet, and her father, V.M. Nair , was an automobile company executive and a journalist. She grew up in what is now Kerala and in Calcutta (now Kolkata ), where her father worked. She began writing poetry when she was a child. When she was 15 years old, she married Madhava Das, a banking executive many years her senior, and they moved to Bombay (now Mumbai ). Das had three sons and did her writing at night.

Das’s poetry collections included Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), and The Old Playhouse, and Other Poems (1973). Subsequent English-language works included the novel Alphabet of Lust (1976) and the short stories “ A Doll for the Child Prostitute” (1977) and “ Padmavati the Harlot” (1992). Notable among her many Malayalam works were the short-story collection Thanuppu (1967; “Cold”) and the memoir Balyakalasmaranakal (1987; “Memories of Childhood”). Perhaps her best-known work was an autobiography , which first appeared as a series of columns in the weekly Malayalanadu , then in Malayalam as Ente Katha (1973), and finally in English as My Story (1976). A shockingly intimate work, it came to be regarded as a classic. In later life Das said that parts of the book were fictional.

In 1999 she controversially converted to Islam , renaming herself Kamala Surayya. She received many literary awards, including the Asian World Prize for Literature in 1985.