Feminist Green Writings Of Contemporary Tamil Women Writers: A Study

Abstract

This paper analyses the select poems of Tamil women writers – SakthiJothi, SakthiArulanandam, MalathiMaithri, and P. Sivakami from feminist ecological perspective. These chosen writers fulfill the didactic principles of the traditional Tamil poetry as they use their poetic space for educating the readers about environment degradation and protection. They critique the mindset of the people and government policy makers who reduce women and nature to mere objects. Though their poems are written in regional language they all echo the global concerns of environmental protection. They subvert the preconceived romanticized similarities between women and nature and highlight their relationship between them as productive which are not mostly included in gross national product of the country.