தற்காலத் தமிழ்ப் பெண் கவிதைகளில் உடல் அரசியலின் விரிவான பரிமாணங்கள்: தத்துவார்த்த, சமூகவியல் மற்றும் இயற்கையியல் ஆய்வு

Abstract

In the landscape of contemporary Tamil poetry, women poets are vociferously raising their voices through their verses to reclaim their selfhood. This journey of women searching for their own identity expands like a cosmos within the literary sphere. This research paper deeply analyzes the intricate body politics present in the selected poems of Tamil women poets such as Salma, Sukirtharani, Kutti Revathi, Malathi Maithri, and Uma Maheswari. Western critical social theories, such as Hélène Cixous's 'Écriture Féminine' (writing the body) and Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex,' provide the theoretical framework for this endeavor to liberate the female from traditional patriarchal constructs. The primary objective of this paper is to examine the strategy through which these poets document their experiences of oppression, marginalization, pain, and anguish as poems within their creative 'space of flight' (parathal veli). Consequently, these poets reframe the female body not as a target of oppression, but as an enduring force of an indestructible cosmic dynamism, often constructed through metaphors of the five classical elements (Aimbhūtas). The study finds that the bold and direct corporeal language employed by these poets’ functions as a radical political act, subverting the values and public morality of the patriarchal society.