Negotiating men/women in modern Indian poetry translated into English
Sayantan Pal Chowdhury
- Pages
- pp. 141-145
- Published
- January 1, 2014
Sayantan Pal Chowdhury (2014). Negotiating men/women in modern Indian poetry translated into English. Labyrinth, 5(1), 141-145.
Abstract
With the growth of Indian poetry in English many Indian women poets have come to the periphery of writing poems. Toru Dutt or Kamala Das inspired many women poets to hold their pens to be vocal against women's oppression in Indian society even after India's Independence. But women's position is still the same as it was oppressed by male dominated society before. Though society has changed and the view towards women has also changed, Indian poets have represented women as oppressed and negative. They are “problems”. They are subjects to their male counterparts and thus their position becomes objective. In the poems of Gagan Gill, Eunice de Souza, Jyotsna Milan, Hira Bansode, Mrinal Pande, Vaidehi and many others modern Indian women are represented as a group of “powerless women”. But, are women always oppressed by men? In this respect I have dealt with both man and woman as represented by the Indian poets in different languages throughout the country. We have seen how balance cannot be drawn by paving a battleground between man and woman. And without the balance peace is hardly discernible in our society. The position of both men and women rests on mutual co- operation. The battle of power can only make unrest. In this paper I have tried to focus on the position of both men and women in the translated of Indian poetry of many Indian poets into English
Keywords:translated poemsmodern Indian poetsbattle of powerco-operationbalanceposition in society


