Summer in Calcutta A Feministic, Autobiographical and Psychoanaytical discussion of Kamala Das

This paper attempts to analyze the feminist tones in the poetry of Indian English writer and poet, Kamala Das, particularly focusing on the expression and problematization of gender roles in her 1965 poetry collection, Summer in Calcutta. It argues that her gendered identity manifests itself in her poetic style and aesthetic, wherein she questions the patriarchal expectations of gender ”“ of women rooted in immanence and domesticity and of men rooted in transcendence and the public sphere. The custom of arranged marriage, domestic emotional abuse, confinement to the private sphere of domesticity, and daunting standards of feminine beauty, are some of the gendered expectations in the Indian woman's experience that Das' poetry interrogates. The various themes that include feminine approach, man woman relationships, Love, lust and different threads of human life which bind two opposite sexes in one relationship. This journey in her works depict all sensory experiences which have a definite bridge between man and woman. Her writing is not only a reflection of the real society but her work gives an insight knowledge of man woman relationships psychology also. Mrigakshi Alok | Dr. Mausumi Chakrobarty "Summer in Calcutta: A Feministic, Autobiographical and Psychoanaytical discussion of Kamala Das" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-3 , June 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd57398.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/57398/summer-in-calcutta-a-feministic-autobiographical-and-psychoanaytical-discussion-of-kamala-das/mrigakshi-alok