LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:10 October 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Feminist Tamil Poets and Their Perspectives in Sri Lanka

Miss. Mathura Annalingam, B.A. in Translation Studies (Hons.)

Abstract

Poetry is the most popular literary genre. It is admired and loved by women as poetry is a way of expressing women’s feeling which is from their tender hearts. From ancient period, Tamil literature has the highest number of women poets in the world. It is amazing to see they were able to compose poems and attend assemblies of poets. They express their feelings in various ways.

We have what is called women’s poetry in our times. Women engage in this creation of poetry based on feminism for two decades. There are many views about feminism in the short stories, novels and any other literary works. Comparatively, feminism is revealed in the poetry more frequently.

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal and social rights for women.

Keywords: Sri Lanka Tamil women poets, feminism, socialist women, freedom

Feminism

Feminism is a theory of interdisciplinary nature for society. It is centred on three major combined issues: Context, experience and their struggles, Activities and wellbeing of women and Criticism regarding women.

In 18th century Elizabeth Abel, Mary Daly, Kate Millet, Juliet Mitchell and Mary Wollstone craft investigated about feminism in the literary field.

In Sri Lankan literature, Annar, Sangari, Auwai, Manohari, Sharmila, Seyyid, Kekirava Sahana, Sivaramani, and Kekirava Sulaiha engaged in literary writing.

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Miss. Mathura Annalingam, B.A. in Translation Studies (Hons.)
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