Miseries of “Second Sex”, from Covert to Overt: Re-Reading of Kamala Das’ My Story (Ente Katha) through the Lenses of her Poems
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 5
Abstract
Kamala Das hails from an area which was the then British-occupied, thus started nourishing a sense of counteraction in her. The present paper focuses on the subject of how Kamala Das being a woman born and brought up in a male-centric world negates all convivial values and projects herself as a rebellion who can raise her voice for those who are long subjugated. The paper shows how Kamala Das opens up a new way of looking and evaluating life, human emotions, and psyche just not reach up to “self” rather radical alteration of acceptance in society. Struggling in between two strikingly opposite worlds, Das’ intention was merely to create identity distinguished in terms of all kinds of epithets.
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Rahul Kar
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- DOI 10.24247/ijeloct20194
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