9789352774913
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Wild Words

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In 2003 a group of men and women setting themselves up as guardians of Tamil culture objected publicly to the language of a new generation of women poets -- particularly in the work of Malathi Maithri Salma Kutti Revathi and Sukirtharani -- charging the women with obscenity and immodesty. More than a decade later a deep divide still persists in the way readers and critics perceive women poets. Tamil women poets have been categorized as 'bad girls' and 'good girls'. The traditional values prescribed for the 'good' Tamil woman are fearfulness propriety and modesty. Our poets have chosen instead the opposite virtues -- fearlessness outspokenness and a ceaseless questioning of prescribed rules. This anthology celebrates the poetry of the four poets through Lakshmi Holmstrom's English translation.

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In 2003 a group of men and women setting themselves up as guardians of Tamil culture objected publicly to the language of a new generation of women poets -- particularly in the work of Malathi Maithri Salma Kutti Revathi and Sukirtharani -- charging the women with obscenity and immodesty. More than a decade later a deep divide still persists in the way readers and critics perceive women poets. Tamil women poets have been categorized as 'bad girls' and 'good girls'. The traditional values prescribed for the 'good' Tamil woman are fearfulness propriety and modesty. Our poets have chosen instead the opposite virtues -- fearlessness outspokenness and a ceaseless questioning of prescribed rules. This anthology celebrates the poetry of the four poets through Lakshmi Holmstrom's English translation.

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ISBN
9789352774913
Distributor
Harper Perennial
Author
Holmstrom Lakshmi
COVER
Paper Back