9788190941617 - Kamala Das: Critical Perspectives (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 215.

This critical anthology attempts to chart definitive perspectives on all the six volumes of poetry that Kamala Das published in her lifetime from Summer in Calcutta 1965 to Encountering Kamala 2007 It revaluates among other issues the exploration of human relationships in Kamala Dass poetry especially those involving sexual love the processes of identity-formation the whatness of me withinin her persona the features of maturationstagnation in her poetic vision and the distinctly postcolonial Indian ambience in which her work is located These readings by widely acknowledged scholars of Kamala Dass poetry are followed by an astute study of her highly provocative autobiography My Story 215 pp.

This volume revaluates the postcolonial narratives of Indian Diaspora crafted by diasporic Indian writers What mainly comes under its scanner is the complex experience of migrancy involving both cultural hybridization and assimilation on the one hand and lingering nostalgia and cultural alienation on the other Its critique of the recent and not so recent diasporic texts at once searching and perceptive foregrounds the deterritorialized expatriate sensibility of their authors Noticeably the study argues that this sensibility blends seamlessly with various prominent features of this variety of diasporic writing For instance of individuation and self-definition in Rushdie of conquest of rootlessness in Jhumpa Lahiri of cultural in betweennessin B Rajan and of the special charms of diasporic sensibility itself in Naipaul 200 pp.