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A poetic symbiosis of two poetesses:
A glimpse at Jean and Parvathi ’s poetry on motherhood
There is a saying –‘The hand that rocks the
cradle is the hand that rules the world’, which speaks of the
pivotal role of motherhood and the figure of maternity in the human
world. The songs and verses composed in praise of motherhood its
virtues, and the emotional landscapes that one finds this theme
taking shape into various forms of expressions are manifold.
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Encounters
Literature and varieties of history
Part6
Last week, while discussing some of the charges
levelled against the Subaltern Studies Group of historians, I
alluded to the absence of gender as a vital factor, at least in
their early work. This leads me directly to today’s theme - feminist
history
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Cultural SCENE
Diasporic writings
Continuing the series on diasporic literature, I
wish to further explore diasporic writings in this week’s column. As
I described in the previous week’s column, one of the important
features in the move is a de-territorilisation and a
re-territorilisation. In simple terms, it is one’s losing the old
‘home’ and regaining a one in the new lands.
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