Edited by devindra kohli (1 resultados)

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.…