Indo-English Women Poetry A Journey From Feminism to...

Indo-English poetry began to be written and until rather recently continued to be written under the influence of the English romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron and even Walter Scott. The poetry of the period is marked by a highly subjective tone and uninhibited expression of personal feeling. Also, nature and its variegated scenes form a background, especially nature in its natural untamed manifestations. Witness for example these lines from Toru Dutt’s (1856-1877) poem â€Å"Sindhu†, where she presents a beautiful description of the sunset on an Indian lake: Upon the glassy surface fell The last beams of the day, Like fiery darts, that lengthening swells, As breezes wake and play Osiers and willows and on†¦show more content†¦Women were kept under the control of men. There was hardly a voice of protest against the dominated society. Margret Macnicol expresses a little agony and irritation of this Kannada woman, Honnama against man’s foolishly humiliation over woman. She says in â€Å"The value of woman†: â€Å"The mother who brought them forth (blind fools), is she not a woman? Alas, why do short-sighted fool forth ridicule, crying, â€Å"Woman, woman† (Chavan 1984:7). In a traditional set up in India, the birth of a son has been always an occasion for celebration but a girl child is considered to be an apprehension of the ensuing sufferings and misery for the family. Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) says: â€Å"As a child a girl identifies herself with her father, then she becomes possessed with a feeling of inferiority with reference to the male and is faced with a dilemma; either to assert her independence and become virilized-which, with the underlying complex of inferiority induces a state of tension that threatens neurosis-or to find happy fulfilment in amorous submission†(beauvoir 1952:75). In India, a woman is always considered as an embodiment of muted or not listened to. Women’s identity is seen through her husband, she becomes an object for men’s ownership and sexual gratification. In the nineteenth century, many social reforms like Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833), Rama Bai Ranade (1862-1924), Pandita Rama Bai (1858-1922), and Jyotirao Phule (1827-1890) etc. came forward to fight for theShow MoreRelatedWife Novel of Bharathi Mukherjee2831 Words   |  12 PagesIn a brief interview published in the November, 1993 issue of San Francisco Focus in which she discusses her novel In order to avoid the trap of reading A Wifes Story as being from a marginal group, I have found it best to first discuss the crafting of the story as a literary work in the tradition of English/American literature, and then move on to the aspects of the story that deal with specific concepts and cultures. Keeping in mind Mukherjees own comments on racism, multiculturalismRead MoreIndian English Novel17483 Words   |  70 PagesThe Indian English novel evolved as a subaltern consciousness; as a reaction to break away from the colonial literature. Hence the post colonial literature in India witnessed a revolution against the idiom which the colonial writers followed. Gradually the Indian English authors began employing the techniques of hybrid language, magic realism peppered with native themes. Thus from a post colonial era Indian literature ushered into the modern and then the post-modern era. The saga of the Indian EnglishRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesHartman Strom, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform Michael Adas, ed., Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered Janis Appier, Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD Allen Hunter, ed., Rethinking the Cold War Eric Foner, ed., The New American History. Revised and Expanded Edition E SSAYS ON _ T WENTIETH- C ENTURY H ISTORY Edited by Michael