Аннотация
Kamala Das is one of the significant writers of Indian English literature. Her writings represent the Indian women and speak about their gendered bias experienced at each and every step of life. She looked in to her self, and wrote poems, novels as well as essays reflect the man-woman relationship and specially woman's quest for identity and true love.
Das's first collection Summer in Calcutta promised the rise of the revolutionary woman poet in India. In her writings reflected woman's longing for love and her restrictions in the society. Her poems like An Introduction, The Descendents, Alphabet of Lust and Only Soul Knows How to Sing are open voices of restricted woman in an orthodox society. Her autobiography My Story created controversy for its frank and bold discussion of her search for love inside and outside marriage. She writes significantly of the traditional conservative society in which she lives. Her's is a vigorous and poignant feminism confessional poetry, in which the underlying theme is the exploration of the man-woman relationship. This style was also subsequently taken up by other women poets such as Suniti Namjoshi, Chitra Narendran and Gouri Despande. Frank and explicit expression on matters of sexuality Kamala Das's writings focused on love betrayal and the resultant agony that often unsettled the orthodox readers. As a confessional poet Kamala Das got recognition by dedicating herself with her creation and the patriotic fervor as a fearless writer. She fought the battle against the oppression and subjugation by the male to the female not being a severe feminist.