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Mohammad Hadi Sameni & Faranak Shamoradi

Unusual but Honest: Kamala Das and Confessional Poetry

(Volume 85 - Année 2016 — Actes de colloques — Special edition)
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Abstract

Many critics from India, such as Ramesh Kumar Gupta, C. Santhosh Kumar, A. Selvalakshmi, Z. F. Molvi, describe the poetry of Kamala Das as being unusual, while the poet believes that she writes with ‘candour’ about her experiences of womanhood. Speaking of her poetry as ‘unusual’ is an expected reader’s response to poems written in the confessional mode that transgress accepted norms of tradition, conventions and culture in her society. Confessional constitutes an interesting dimension of women’s writing, in which the poets uncover confidentialities that bond her private and public spheres together. This paper is an investigation into the poetry of Kamala Das (1934-2009), the prolific Indian woman writer of the twentieth century to explicate confessional elements in her poetry. Das borrows this style of writing from her contemporary American writers and employs it as a means of articulation, negotiation and resistance through projecting the self.

Keywords : confessional mode, english poetry, indian writing, women writers

To cite this article

Mohammad Hadi Sameni & Faranak Shamoradi, «Unusual but Honest: Kamala Das and Confessional Poetry», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 85 - Année 2016, Actes de colloques, Special edition, 1628 - 1641 URL : https://popups.ulg.ac.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=6354.

About: Mohammad Hadi Sameni

Department of English, School of Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran, Sameni@jums.ac.ir

About: Faranak Shamoradi

Department of English, Ghorveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ghorveh, Iran, Faranak_shahmoradi@yahoo.com