Old Playhouse And Other Poems
Material type: TextPublication details: Hyderabad Orient BlackSwan 2011Description: 54pISBN:- 9788125043249
- 821 KAM-O
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Book | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | 821 KAM-O (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | DCB2466 |
The Old Playhouse and Other Poems is among the classics of modern Indian poetry in English. This new edition carries an eminently readable and insightful introduction by V. C. Harris. Not only Kamala Das\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s major themes but the specific terms of her poetic address, voice, and concerns (as a woman, poet, and social being) receive fairly close and critical attention in these pages. Harris concludes his discussion of The Old Playhouse with an altogether fresh and illuminating reading of Kamala Das\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\An Introduction\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ in the light of postcolonial concerns of home and the world, and the poet\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s conversion to Islam in the last years of her life. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Talking about Kamala Das today means talking about not merely post-Independence Indian poetry in English,\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ he observes, adding that other, far more complicated issues \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\relating to gender, violence, identity and difference, hybridity, contradictory coherence, and . . . language and the art of writing the self\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ cry for renewed attention, pre-eminently in this collection.
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