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Full Screen- TITLE
- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- ABBREVIATIONS
- I. Introduction
- WORKS CITED
- II. Kamala Das - Her Sense of Incompleteness
- WORKS CITED
- III. The Achievements of Kamala Das as a Poet
- I) When we were childrenv- Poems relating to her clddhood:
- 2) The minds striptease7- Dass confessional poetry:
- 3) Amidst scorpions of fashionable peopleu- Dass social poetry:
- 4 a) Individual 1 Universal I - Dass philosophical poetry:
- 5) Wondrous raiment fit for Gods- Dass poetic craft:
- i) Use of contrasts and paradoxes:
- ii) Repetition:
- iii) Irony and understatement:
- WORKS CITED
- IV. The Quest for Completeness: Kamala Dass Foray into Painting
- Fig. I What, Are You Jealous? - Paul Gauguin
- Fig. 2 Nude --- Henri Matisse
- Fig. 3 Caryatid -- Amedeo Modigliani
- Analysis of individual paintings:
- I) Paintings dealing with her childhood
- Fig. 4 Grandmother with Child - Kamala Das
- Materials and technique:
- Fig. 5 Grandmother, Maid and Child in a Waiting Room- Kamala Das
- Evaluation of the painting:
- Visual facts:
- Fig. 6 Maid at the Bath ---- Kamala Das
- Comparison with her poetry:
- 2) Paintings belonging to her confessional period
- a) The Nude at Noon:
- Fig. 7 Nude at Noon - Kamala Das
- b) The Nude at Night
- Fig. 8 Nude at Night - Kamala Das
- c) Spring
- Fig. 9 Spring -- Kamala Das
- Fig. 10 Detail of Indian Miniature Painting
- a) The Sea Nymph:
- Fig. 1l The Sea Nymph - Kamala Das
- Fig. 12 Beggar Woman Asleep - Kamala Das
- Fig. 13 A Small Girl Asleep - Kamala Das
- Fig. 14 A Widow - Kamala Das
- WORKS CITED
- V. Kamala Das Among Other Painter-poets
- Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Fig. 15 The Last Judgement - Michelangelo
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Dante Gabriel Rosetti
- Jaya Appasamy
- WORKS CITED
- VI The Summing Up:
- Interview with Kamala Das
- WORKS CITED
- BIBILIOGRAPHY