Would you consider “An Introduction” as a poem of postcolonial feminism ? Give a reasoned analysis with close textual references.

Would you consider “An Introduction” as a poem of postcolonial feminism ? Give a reasoned analysis with close textual references.

Kamala Das is one of the prominent figure in the history of Indian English poetry. As a bilingual Indian English post-independent and post-colonial poet, she was an iconoclast protested against the discrimination to women, and hegemonic position of male over female was staunchly attacked in her all works, mapping out the story of marginalized, subaltern category of society and heralding new birth for downtrodden sect of the society as she was reckoned as harbinger of post-colonial feminism in Indian context. While pre-independence women poets of India, depicted a romanticized perspective of woman, which was borrowed from western style writing, Das’s prioritization was for the subordinate category. She was depicting the whole canvass of her life which she experienced, she expressed it as quest for true love and quest for identity, demonstrated her agony and frustration. She was expressing her story as the story of entire women in the world. We can term her poems as poem of Experience whereas Naidu’s poem of Innocence.

As a counter discourse to male-centric parameters, feminism interrogates dominant patriarchal ideologies and seeks space for women as potent forces in social configuration.[1] Although the feminism is political construct, it has been the main factor of postcolonial discourse. While Feminism in West grown up in a different matrix, it reshaped with its whole power in a distinct style in Indian context which opened huge debate all over the world..

Broadly speaking, there are two different kinds of feminism; Postcolonial feminism and western feminism. Kamala Das was the advocate of the former one.  Although it is difficult to generalize about postcolonial feminism................

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