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- Title
"Love Among the Ruins": A Study of Taslima Nasreen's Early Poetry.
- Authors
Guha, Saikat
- Abstract
Taslima Nasreen, the much-discussed author who was banished from Bangladesh for her radical works, expresses her bitterness at the social-religious system that perpetrates the affliction of woman. The proclaimed feminist, Nasreen's sense of victimhood can be identified universally with the Third-world woman condition. But apart from the hatred and protest that gather in her early poetry, what is simultaneously present is the quest for love in the barren wasteland of patriarchy. Nasreen's poetry shows the glimmer of subversion of traditional gender hierarchy, but ultimately falls the prey of patriarchal ideology which the poet inheres unwittingly. This article addresses the issue of woman's subordination that is highlighted by feminist like Simon De Beauvoir and inquires how far Nasreen's poetry is successful in unsettling the 'sexual-politics'.
- Subjects
FEMINIST literature; NASARINA, Tasalima, 1962-; FEMINISM in literature; CRIMES against women; LOVE poetry; IDEOLOGY in literature; WOMEN authors
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 4, p135
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Literary Criticism