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Abstract: »Kamala Das has vehemently subverted against the societal norms of the patriarchy where women are expected to be submissive. As a woman she had to undergo trauma from sexual violence within the institution of marriage. The trauma that she went through, could be seen through her prose and poems. She has explicitly portrayed her personal experiences in her writings, which allow her to open up from the pain she had to endure. Not only in her autobiography, My Story, even in her prose fictions and poems she has depicted the perception of men towards women that the patriarchal society has implanted on them. She did not just accept her status as a woman that was placed by the society. In fact, through her writings she has found her identity, paving ways for many women to speak out their rights to find their individuality. It is when we face our fear and open up that we can come out of the trauma of a particular fear. That is exactly what Kamala Das has done. Though we live in the twenty first century, women continue to suffer from sexual violence, the aftermath of which is trauma, and that could also be fatal. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to analyse through the writings of Kamala Das, the trauma that she had to endure from the sexual violence that she encountered. That in turn made her a pioneer for the emancipation of women from the clutches of male chauvinist society.« (Source: International Journal Of English and Studies)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 309)
	Introduction (p. 309)
	Traumatic effect of sexual violence (p. 310)
	Conclusion (p. 315)
	Works cited (p. 315)

Note: Marah, Joel L. »Analysing the Traumatic effect of sexual violence in the writings of Kamala Das.« Research Journal of English 11 (2026): 613-621. - Bibliographic Entry: Info

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