An Assertion of Feminine Rights in a Patriarchal World in Kamala Das’s An Introduction

Abstract

An Introduction expresses the poet's innermost thoughts and feelings. The self remains the subject. Her Dravidian identity is emphasized. It also expresses her outrage against the antics who ask her to write in her mother tongue alone. English too has become a part of her intellectual and emotional frameworks. The weight of the female breast and womb crushes her decides to strike back. Kamala Das tries to express everywoman in her search for love. The assertion of the self has after side. She is the sinner and the saint, the beloved and the betrayed she makes love which is accompanied with shame.