Paper Title: Reinstalling Female Identity: An Investigation into the Selected Works of Kamala Das
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Kamala Das (1934-2009) is a pioneering figure in the post-colonial women’s struggle for reinstalling female identity and individuality. She is a role model for the helpless women who want to raise voice against patriarchy, but can not, owing to lack of courage. Through her works Das has shown how to reclaim the fundamental rights they are deprived of for long. Her confessional mode of writing has inspired women how to create and write their own history that is free from masculine autonomy. Her works switch on a red signal to the age-old roles assigned to women. In short, Kamala Das’s works are a collective call to women to create a world characterized by equality and liberty. This bold assertion of Kamala Das has found wide space in multiple feminist theories of Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Bell Hooks and many others.
Keywords:Female Identity, Kamla Das, Feminist, Patriarchy, Liberty.
Doi Link – https://dx.doi.org/10.63431/AIJITR/1.II.2024.5-9
Review By – Revised and accepted on 4 th December 2024