STUDY ON INDIAN ENGLISH WOMEN POETS

Abstract

The critical approach to Naidu had undergone a complete reversal and her poetic voice was now found to be modern, feminist, nuanced and strategically postcolonial. The modern female poetic voices of the 1960s comprise those published from Calcutta, such as Gauri Deshpande, and those from Bombay such as Eunice de Souza and others, and those published in both India and abroad, such as Meena Alexander, Sujata Bhatt and Imtiaz Dharker. This thesis, traces representative voices from Toru Dutt to Smita Agarwal, from the nineteenth century to the present day, looking at their themes and their poetic styles and mapping both resonances and divergences. In the course of this exploration there emerge clear lines of development in the poetic negotiations of language, location, history and culture