FEMININE IDENTITY AND VOICE IN SUJATA BHATT'S POETRY
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https://doi.org/10.69980/6p6pgf58Keywords:
Feminine Identity, Poetic Voice, Diaspora, Language and Identity, Sujata BhattAbstract
The study presents a narrative review of the idea of feminine identity and poetic voice in the poems of Sujata Bhatt and the ways of how these two elements are constructed and conveyed through the lens of feminism, postcolonialism, and linguistics. The review recaps the literature available, to explore how the work of Bhatt reflects the subtleties of the diasporic experience where identity is gained in the process of cultural displacement, memory and hybridity. It indicates that feminine identity in her poems is not necessary but moves, it is negotiated in different spaces and cultural and linguistic. The paper also examines the poetic voice as a vehicle of agency and resistance that enables one to speak out against the marginalized experiences and reidentify oneself beyond the patriarchal framework. The role of language as a marker of identity and conflict zone is described as a special one and can be exploited to explain the significance of linguistic choices on belonging and cultural tenacity. This review provides a complete image about the overlapping of identity and voice in the poetry of Bhatt by integrating the views of the theory and thematic analysis. The results play out in a wider field of literature in terms of gender studies, cultural discourse and diasporic literature, where the importance of literary expression to current issues of identity, representation and inclusion can be discussed.
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