Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Publication of Kamala Das’ Summer in Calcutta (1965 ) was a kind of crossing of the Rubicon for Indian English poetry and particularly Indian English women poetry. The bold new themes included assertion of Gender-identity and uninhibited expression of ‘endless female hungers’. Modern Indian English women poets have unabashedly articulated their female sexuality and carnal desires against a rather traditional socio-cultural background. Body thematics has come to occupy a prime place in their writings . A significant aspect herein is the ambivalence of these poets’ attitude towards Body and related physicality as they portray both the ‘pains of hell’ and the ‘pleasures of heaven’ related to the Body World. This paper takes up perusal of these Modern Indian English women poets’ chequered engagement with Body , their exaltations and their disappointments ,their expectations and their disillusionments. It also analyses the undertaken quest and the ultimate vision of Love and Life as expressed in the writings of these poets.
Author: Dr. Rashmi Bajaj
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404726905