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The Quest for Identity in Kamala Das’s Poetry: A Journey Through Self-Discovery and Cultural Conflicts

Author(s) Yeshfeen Hasan, Dr. Ashvini Joshi
Country India
Abstract Kamala Das is indeed a unique figure, holding a prominent place in the canon of prominent poets in the Indian English literary tradition invariably associated with her candid, autobiographical writing on identity, selfhood and female experience. Issues of identity are indeed a foremost concern for this intimist poet, specifically when exploring issues of women living/realising their own desires with an adherence to social constructs. In fact, we contend, that Das’s poetry is about a trajectory of self-building which occurs through a view of contributor, regardless of conflicting demands and complex interplay of feelings, cultural constructions, and gendered construals of self. This paper is meant to explore identity as the consequence of research theme within Kamala Das's poetry and the line is drawn through conflicting wants-needs, grounded in societal beliefs and with a space of personal desire in her poetry. As an expansion to the identity theme, we follow parallel themes of sexuality, marital dis-satisfaction, imposed constraints on women, and lastly the ontological claim to a more real and free self. Overall, this paper will put forward that through Kamala Das's poetry is a realistic journey looking for self-recognition in the space of claiming one's self, in the space between the subjective experience of claiming the self, in contradistinction to the socially sanctioned self.
Keywords Kamala Das’s Poetry, Cultural Conflicts, Indian Literary.
Published In Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-08
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