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- Title
An Ecofeminist Analysis of Kamala Das' Select Short Stories.
- Authors
Sebastian, Armstrong
- Abstract
Kamala Das is a bilingual author. Her radical and innovative literary creations were quite revealing for both English and Malayalam readers. In the long span of her literary career over of over fifty years, she was assessed with varying yardsticks. She was considered a confessional writer, a feminist writer and even a post-modern author. Towards the last phase of her literary career she had written stories that could be considered from an ecofeminist point of view. Ecofeminism lays bare fresh avenues for female participation in the preservation of the earth and preservation of life with a clear agenda against androcentrism and anthropocentrism. The five main streams of ecofeminism according to European classification, radical/cultural ecofeminism, spiritual ecofeminism, ecofeminist theology, social ecofeminism and socialist ecofeminism, can be traced in the stories of Kamala Das. In this article, eleven stories of the author are taken for analysis from Malayalam and English to establish the pioneering ecofeminist contribution of the author. This initiative of the author has inspired other Malayalam authors like Chandramathi, P. Valsala and Sarah Joseph to progress through this path. The natural and instinctive inclination of women towards nature is beautifully portrayed in these stories with a very clear feminist orientation. It is noted that the anguished and anxious soul of woman is in the same plight across social stratification. Yet, she is the one closer to the soil and life.
- Subjects
ECOFEMINISM; DAS, Kamala
- Publication
International Journal on Multicultural Literature, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
2231-6248
- Publication type
Article