Abstract
Re-echoing the Self against the Male Politics of Denial: A Study of the Poetry of Kamala Das
Highlights
What takes a woman to lose her body to a man or say both the body and soul to a man? Is there a possibility of a reverse process? Or, both require augmenting each other’s dignity by either losing or gaining together
Is the relationship between man and woman that of gain and loss for one or it ought to be a gain and loss for both at the same time? Is there a conservative necessity to qualify the lust of a woman as ‘poor lust’ and that of a man as a persecutor on ‘poor lust’? Is physical build a constant superiority on the physical delicacies of a woman? These are some of the various questions that Kamala Das, as a personally lived agent of womanhood against the ‘monstrous ego’ of manhood, wants to investigate and get answers in her poems
The Old PlayHouse and Other Poems, Summer in Calcutta, Collected Poems and many independent poems bring out the complete picture of this male hegemony over the female body and psyche that Kamala Das wants to question
Summary
Abstract— Kamala Das has brought into the discourse those issues of women which were generally shied and shielded in the Indian academia. Man is just one animal sans sensitivity She enacts the whole psychology of female desire and sexuality and finds man completely miserable to understand this. Her poems aim at giving those messages on the art of love as given by Pablo Neruda in his poems
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