The unparalleled Tamil classic’s third part, covering desire, was long overlooked, but Kandasamy’s new translation looks precisely at it to challenge convention
doi:10.53032/tcl.2023.8.3.04Rahman, IbadurCreative Launcher
November 26, 2014byMeena Kandasamy Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. …Read more Literature Original Poetry: ‘An Archive of Consonants’ by Itisha Giri ...
Feminism and Social Disparity in the Poems of Maya Angelou and Meena Kandasamy - A Study Language in IndiaFathima, Shaziya
Exquisite Cadavers– Meena Kandasamy(Atlantic) A Oulipo style novella showing how fiction can be created from life, but it isn’t the same thing. Longer reviewhere. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary– Sarah Manguso(Graywolf Press) Manguso wrote a daily diary until she had her first child. ...
Meena Kandasamy: The Dalit Woman Poet and RebelIt will begin in our red hot dreams that scourge/ that scorch/ that scald That sizzle like lava but never settle down Never poignantly solidify It will begin when the oppressors will wince Every time they hear our voices(Kandasamy, 2006)Wasia...
The chapter explores psychological tactics such as gaslighting, isolation, intimidation, humiliation, and control as a distinct category of violence against the backdrop of Meena Kandasamy's ' When I Hit You Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife '. The narrator in the novel recounts...
Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, translator, fiction writer, and Dalit activist based in...Venkatesan, SathyarajJames, RajeshUniversity of Calgary, Department of EnglishARIEL
Meena Kandasamy's 'When I hit you' is a tale of a battered wife who happens to be an aspiring writer. The novel traces the dichotomies of a misogynist husband who uses his profession and his ideologies as a masquerade to abuse his wife. It is a chilling account of the domestic ...
THE CIRCLE OF ABUSE IN DOMESTIC RELATIONSHIPS : READING MEENA KANDASAMYdoi:10.5281/zenodo.4087724Ruth LivingstonDIKSHA DHAR