• Gohar Ayaz

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• Nadia Anjum

  Author

This paper will lead the readers to explore the colonial issues in Kamala Das’s poem ‘An
Introduction’. Her ignorance of politics and British rulers within the Indian Society which is a
rebellious act against colonizers and their prestige, use and support of a hybrid language
instead of English language and Indian languages, writing in a Third Space, Eurocentric
aptitude, call for the freedom of speech and act, rebellion against the set traditions; all these
factors will be analyzed on the basis of Colonialism Theory. Double imprisonment of women by
the colonizers and the patriarchal society has the glimpses in the poem under consideration.
Escapism from these bonds and oppressed life is reflected in her poem. When the restrictions of
the colonizers are over women is still facing other restrictions which are not less than those in
the past. Every line of the poem is worth to explore in its Postcolonial study. In this poem she has
been truly depicted as true Postcolonial poetess of India.

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