Volume III Special Issue V May 2023

Name of Author : Dr Asha Madhavi Pagadala

Title of the paper : Kamala Das: A Confessional Ecofeminist

Abstract: Ecofeminism depicts movements and philosophies that connect feminism with ecology. Ecofeminism enunciates the exploitation and domination of women to the environment and argues that there is a connection between women and nature. Ecofeminism is an interdisciplinary movement that calls for a new way of thinking about nature, politics, and spirituality. Ecofeminist theory proclaims that the domination of women by men is intimately linked to the destruction of the environment. This paper aims to throw light on Kamala Das as a feminist poet with a deep rooted environmental awareness. The environment created by her is an environment not only for the cohabitation of man and woman, but for the entire animate and inanimate forms on the earth. She adored and accepted nature with the age old Indian reverence for nature. My paper focuses on these aspects of nature reflected in her poems and emphasizes Kamala Das as one of the ecofeminist writers of Indian English Literature.

Keywords : Ecofeminism, Exploitation, Nature, Environment, Spirituality

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Page Number : 151-155