Author: Rajeshwar Mittapalli
Pier Paolo Piciucco/
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 172
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171569498
Description
The present volume puts together deeply perceptive articles which study various facets of her poetry from feminist and other perspectives and often with reference to her life, a confessional poet that she is.
Kamala Das has been a unique literary phenomenon in India. Frank, bold and controversial in life and literature, Kamala Das made enormous contribution to the growth of Indian poetry in English.
As poet Kamala Das merits a place among the best women poets of the twentieth century. She has made enormous contribution to Indian poetry in English by adding a feminist dimension to it, although she is not inclined to admit it. Perhaps deriving her inspiration from her matrilineal background she celebrates woman's body and pleads for its integrity in her poems. She writes poetry as only as woman can write and take pride in the fact of being a woman and that is certainly the starting point of all kinds of feminism.
The present volume puts together deeply perceptive articles which study various facets of her poetry from feminist and other perspectives and often with reference to her life, a confessional poet that she is.
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1
One Woman's Autobiography : Kamala Das's (My Story)
CHAPTER 2
The Poems of Kamala Das : An Assessment
CHAPTER 3
A Feminist Voice - A Study of Kamala Das's Poems
CHAPTER 4
Kamala Das : 'The Tragedy of Life is not Death but Growth'
CHAPTER 5
Body and Beyond : Love Poetry of Kamala Das
CHAPTER 6
The Onset of Poetic Rebellion : An Explication of Kamala Das's 'An Introduction'
CHAPTER 7
Kamala Das : Homeless in the City
CHAPTER 8
Literary Paradigms of Matriliny : Kamala Das's (My Story)
CHAPTER 9
Split-Self in the Poetry of Kamala Das
CHAPTER 10
Between the Fire and the Hungry Earth : A Note on Kamala Das
CHAPTER 11
Suffering and Humiliation in Kamala Das's Poetry
CHAPTER 12
Kamala Das and the Confessional Mode
CHAPTER 13
The Irony of Sex : The Gloss or the Teakwood (A Study of Kamala Das)
CHAPTER 14
Treatment of Nature in Kamala Das's Poetry
CHAPTER 15
Kamala Das - Need for Re-assessment
Bibliography