K. Saraswathi Amma
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". K. Saraswathi Amma (14 April 1919 – 26 December 1975)[1] was a Malayalam feminist writer whose short stories have been anthologised in translation in several American texts. According to critic Jancy James, "In the entire history of women's writing in Kerala, Saraswathi Amma's is the most tragic case of the deliberate neglect of female genius."[2]
Literary career
K. Saraswathi Amma's first short story was published in 1938, followed by 12 volumes of short stories, a novel, and a play. In 1958, a book of essays titled Purushanmarillatha Lokam[2] was published. In her time she was dubbed as a 'man hater,' but later feminist scholars have celebrated her.[2][3]
J. Devika in her article titled 'Beyond Kulina and Kulata: The Critique of Gender Difference in the Writings of K. Saraswati Amma', in Indian Journal of Gender Studies re-reads the writings of K. Saraswathi Amma, whom she describes "an author marginalised within the Malayalee literary universe and labelled as an incorrigible man-hater."[3] Devika considers her paper an "effort to read her writing as an engagement with the positions taken in the debates around modern gender in the early 20th-century Malayalee public sphere."[3]
A selection of Saraswathi Amma's fiction, some of it translated into English, was published under the title Stories from a forgotten feminist.[4][5] In the foreword, Jancy James says, "In stories she shattered women's illusions about men and about love, and bitterly attacked patriarchy and tradition, giving her the reputation of being a strident feminist."[4]
Works
Novel
- Premabhajanam (Darling) - 1944
Play
- Devaduth (Messenger of God) -1945
Short stories
- Ponnumkudam (Pot of Gold) - 1946
- SthreeJanmam (Born as a woman) - 1946
- Keezhjeevanakkari (Subjugated woman) - 1949
- Kalamandiram (Temple of art) - 1949
- Penbuddhi (Women's wit) - 1951
- Kanatha Mathil (Thick wall) - 1953
- Prema Pareekshanam (Experiment of love) - 1955
- Chuvanna Pookkal (Red flowers) - 1955
- Cholamarangal (Shady trees) - 1958
Collection of essays
- Purushanmaarillatha Lokam (A World Without Men) - 1958
Posthumously published
- Stories from a forgotten feminist
References
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- 1919 births
- 1975 deaths
- 20th-century Indian novelists
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- Indian feminist writers
- Indian women novelists
- Indian women short story writers
- Indian women essayists
- 20th-century short story writers
- 20th-century Indian essayists
- Indian women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
- Malayalam-language writers
- Women writers from Kerala
- Novelists from Kerala
- Dramatists and playwrights from Kerala