期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2018
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：74
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：This paper examines Kamala Das’ attempt to translate the ever changing contours of feminine subjectivityinto the structured space of language, in the light of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva’s theorization ofpsyche. Das’ instinctual urge to resist definitive structuring of the inner zones of female consciousnessechoes Kristeva’s concept of Revolt, which is identified to be the psychic re-ordering to explore the varieddimensions of subjectivity. Revolt is explained by Kristeva as the disruptive potential of the innate desiredrives of human psyche, which challenge the very stability of the discourses pertaining to identity in the‘Symbolic’. The manifestation of Revolt in the writings of Das breaks the fetters of gendered identity andopens up the possibilities to experience one’s ‘self’ in unspecified ways. The resistance to the order of the‘symbolic’ and the inclination to oscillate between the blurring borders separating the most natural urges ofthe “semiotic” and the ordered space of the symbolic, defines the essence of female psyche in Das. Thispaper discusses this unstable and trangressive nature of female subjectivity in Das which reflects Kristeva’sthrust on the dynamics of Revolt in defying categorization.
