FEMININITY UNLEASHING: POST-MILLENNIALINDIAN ENGLIS WOMEN POETRY,BEYOND THE CONCEPTUAL CLICHÉ.

Abstract

Modern Indian English women poets offer a mind-boggling variety of themes as well as style that poetry is capable of offering by absorbing a verity of influences with range of themes and poetic expressions. Each one of them has tried to speak in a distinctly personal voice and there by asserts the autonomy of women in their poems.  Women writers believe that for excising individualism creation of a community of women is a necessary antidote and women need to explore their collective consciousness and shared experience to transcend the fragmentation and isolation of their lives. We can see a remarkable movement in  connecting the domestic with the public spheres of work due to Increased metropolitan activities, sophisticated life styles, globalization, urbanized influences,  Anglo-Americanization and the public and the new mode of education which  produced a new generation of dynamic and zestful  young women poets who used the deconstructive narrative and conceptual frames along with Indian ethnic  elements made their poetry an inspiring and challenging area of research which is  in a highly experimental diction. Apart from the conventional feminine themes modern women poets bring forth the suppressed desires, lust, sexuality and gestational experiences in poetry by transforming it entirely postmodern. We can experience a voluntary inculcation of indigenization in terms of language, theme, local colours, rituals and myths, so as to make it more popular than reaching in the hands of few. It has myriad promises to full fill in the future since each line expresses the vanquished dreams and boundless promises of several minds.   

The above-mentioned postmodern traits can attribute to the poems of Sujata Bhatt, who has been shaped by her cross-cultural experiences and her bi-lingual poems explore the conflict of the self fragmentation between different cultures. Her poems throw her own sense of otherness and self fragmentation in different cultures.  In her poems she uses the technique of monologues and uses a diverse verity of characters. Her poems like Search of My Tongue, in the collection Bruzinem (1988), The One Who Goes Away, in the collection The Stinking Rose (1995) shows the above features.

Another major poet SunitiNamjoshi addresses with her political poetry which have deep engagements with issues of gender, sexual orientation, cultural identity and human rights and she celebrates these in her poems like The Female of the Species and The Quest.