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- Title
Revisionist Myth Making: Meena Kandasamy's Defiance of Male Hegemony in Her Select Poems.
- Authors
Baby, Jibin; Raja, S. Ayyappa
- Abstract
Myth is the most powerful tool used by patriarchy to subjugate women. It has not only affixed women a gendered identity built on the binary logic but also has attributed a sexual identity submerged within the phallic system. The archetypes of women created by patriarchal religious scriptures have seeped into the everyday realities of society making women mute, submissive and obedient too. Feminist writers throughout the twentieth century have exposed this project of patriarchy by highlighting the women characters created by the male centered religious discourse. Meena Kandasamy hailed as the "first Indian woman writer, writing Dalit poetry in English" uses this technique of "Revisionist Mythmaking" to subvert the Brahmanical myth of Hindu religion, which has for long perpetuated and legitimized system of patriarchy. Like a Phoenix bird which rises from the ashes, the female mythical figures that Meena Kandasamy has created break all the shackles of caste and patriarchy. The present study aims at the analysis of three poems of Meena Kandasamy namely "Princess-in-exile," "Random Access Man" and "Six Hours of Chastity," to point out how she has effectively used the technique of Revisionist Myth Making in re-appropriating the myth of Sita and Nalayani.
- Subjects
HEGEMONY; KANDASAMY, Meena; ARCHETYPE (Psychology) in literature
- Publication
International Journal on Multicultural Literature, 2017, Vol 7, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
2231-6248
- Publication type
Article