5/29/2023 0 Comments Ms Militancy by Meena KandasamyIn the light of the arguments presented above, the paper intends to critically engage with selected poems by Meena Kandasamy published in Ms. Aware of the revolutionary potential of such retelling, she endeavors to 'lay claim to religious space' and 'seek a share in story telling' in order to reclaim the goddesses as women from the 'sterilized patriarchy approved story' (Kandasamy), thereby redressing the imbalance pertaining to gender roles in our society. Taking inspiration from Anne Sexton's revisionist retelling of Grimm Brothers' fairytales in Transformations and Carol Ann Duffy's telling of the female side of the story in The World's Wife, Meena Kandasamy retells the Hindu and Tamil myths from feminist perspective in her second anthology of poems Ms. The functionalist theory of Myth by Brownislaw Malinowski, purports that religious myths emerge in order to reinforce social order of a culture, giving validation to the power structures, by attributing prestige to the tradition and 'tracing it back to a higher better, more supernatural reality of initial events' (qtd.
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