india author m 1- a-nan - University of Wollongong
india author m 1- a-nan - University of Wollongong
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the external world <strong>of</strong> phenomena” constellated in imagery <strong>of</strong> house and body. Traces moods<br />
from celebration <strong>of</strong> senses to existential angst, the house as positive tradition and prison, the<br />
image <strong>of</strong> spontaneous exposure to the cover <strong>of</strong> role-playing, sex as grotesque spectacle and<br />
vehicle for union, noting that static structures are oppressive while the dynamic changes <strong>of</strong><br />
history reinvigorate moral and cultural tradition. Illustrative commentary on “Composition” in<br />
which emotional intensity counterpoints blunt description and paradoxes <strong>of</strong> flesh and spirit<br />
wherein “the strength <strong>of</strong> desire” provokes cruelty and exhaustion but also life-informing drives<br />
to resurrection <strong>of</strong> purified soul.<br />
DARUWALLA, K.N. "Confessional Poetry as Social Commentary: A View <strong>of</strong> English<br />
Poetry by Indian Women" in RAM, ATMA. ed. Contemporary Indian-English Poetry<br />
Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1989: 13-20.<br />
DAS, BIJAY KUMAR. "Kamala Das and the Making <strong>of</strong> the Indian English Idiom" in<br />
SINGH, R.K. ed. Indian English Writing 1981-1985: Experiments with Expression New<br />
Delhi: Bahri Publications, 1987: 91-8.<br />
DE SOUZA, EUNICE. "Kamala Das" in SHAHANE, V.A. & M. SIVARAMAKRISHNA,<br />
eds. "Contemporary Indian Poetry in English Special Number" Osmania Journal <strong>of</strong> English<br />
Studies 13.1 (1977):19-27.<br />
DE SOUZA, EUNICE. "Kamala Das" in SHAHANE, VASANT A. and<br />
SIVARAMKRISHNA, M. eds Indian Poetry in English: A Critical Assessment Madras:<br />
Macmillan, 1980: 41-7. Also Atlantic Highlands: Humanities, 1981.<br />
DHAR, T.N. "Eros Denied: Love in the Poetry <strong>of</strong> Kamala Das" i RAM, ATMA. ed.<br />
Contemporary Indian-English Poetry Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1989: 21-31.<br />
DWIVEDI, A.N. Kamala Das and Her Poetry Delhi: Doaba House, 1983, 148 pp.<br />
ELIAS, M. "Kamala Das and Nayar Heritage" Journal <strong>of</strong> Indian Writing in English 6.2<br />
(1978):15-24.<br />
ELIAS, MOHAMED. "The Short Stories <strong>of</strong> Kamala Das" WLWE (Autumn 1985):307-12.<br />
ELIAS, MOHAMED. “Aubrey Menen and Kamala Das: Angli-Dravidian Revolt against<br />
Aryan Myths”Jadavpur Journal <strong>of</strong> Comparative Literature 24 (1986): 124-133..<br />
Menen in his Rama Retold and Das in her My Story and verse recreate traditional Hindu<br />
myths to focus on outlaws and adultresses. Both South Indian (and related), they create a<br />
pure Dravidian space (crossed in Das with Whitman and western writing and in both cases by<br />
a sense <strong>of</strong> racial alienation) opposed to the corrupt urban North and its Aryan hierarchised<br />
aggression. Das’s ambivalent relations with Krishna indicate both fear <strong>of</strong> male and Aryan<br />
domination and confidence that Dravidian/Nayar blood can contain their conquests.<br />
Biographical, cultural and thematic approach.<br />
GOWDA, H. H. ANNIAH. “Perfected Passions: The Love Poetry <strong>of</strong> Kamala Das and Judith<br />
Wright.” Literary half-Yearly 20:1 (1979)
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