Kamala Das: A Critical Spectrum (Hardcover)  | Released: 2007

As a 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 womans body and pleads for its integrity in her poems. She writes poetry as only as woman can write and takes 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.Table of Contents: 1. One Woman's Autobiography : Kamala Das's My Story Usha V.T. 2. The Poems of Kamala Das : An Assessment N.V. Raveendran 3. A Feminist Voice A Study of Kamala Das's Poems Ramesh Kumar Gupta 4. Kamala Das : 'The Tragedy of Life is not Death but Growth' O.J. Thomas 5. Body And Beyond : Love Poetry of Kamala Das P. Mallikarjuna Rao 6. The Onset of Poetic Rebellion : An Explication of Kamala Das's 'An Introduction' Jayakrishnan Nair 7. Kamala Das : Homeless in the City Z.F. Molvi 8. Literary Paradigms of Matriliny : Kamala Das's My Story Usha V.T. 9. Split-Self in the Poetry of Kamala Das Sharada Iyer 10. Between the Fire and the Hungry Earth : A Note on Kamala Das K. Indra Sena Reddy 11. Suffering and Humiliation in Kamala Das's Poetry K.V. Surendran 12. Kamala Das and the Confessional Mode N. Ramadevi 13. The Irony of Sex : The Gloss or the Teakwood (A Study of Kamala Das) I.K. Sharma 14. Treatment of Nature in Kamala Das's Poetry C.C. Varkey 15. Kamala Das Need for Re-assessment Sharad Rajimwale Bibliography