Suranjana Bhadra
2018-07-22
<p>Contemporary women poets in India have re-radicalized the commonplace poetical conventions in order to<br>
subvert prevalent power structures. The self-representation of the cultural ‘other’ in poetry dissolves the<br>
feeling of being an ‘outsider’ as they venture to move beyond boundaries, beyond fixities. The process of<br>
creating a potent voice translates the ‘contact zone’ into the production of meaning. The two places, the ‘I’<br>
and the ‘You’ get mobilized in the passage through a ‘Third Space’, a fusion of the horizons through selfrepresentation.<br>
This dynamic outcome of the ‘war of position’ in the fluid, ambiguous and indeterminate<br>
spaces makes the structure of meanings polysemic.<br>
With the attempt to create a space of one’s own Meena Kandasamy threatens the conspiracy of subjugation<br>
and silence by speaking with her body and recreating her own myths. Her works exemplify the resistance to<br>
the regimes of the normal that makes them ‘queer’. This paper explores the revolutionary language of poetry<br>
of the women poets that breaks out of a hetero normative matrix. Kandasamy asserts that “This tongue allows<br>
me to resist, rape, to rescue my dreams”. Such an assertion from the ‘angry young woman’ not only suggest<br>
the barren, painful lives of women, but also reveal the combined violence of colloquial, slang and mutilated<br>
words to shock the readers. The militant language signifies the feminine body, the exuberance and genuine<br>
emotions, free from all artificial restraints.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1318978
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postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies, 3(2), 93-100, (2018-07-22)
space, distruptive, body, language, poetic
A 'Space' of One's Own: Exploring the Language of Resistance in Select Poems of Meena Kandasamy
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