Analysis Of Feminist Elements In Torru Dutt Writings

The present paper deals with “Feminist Elements in Toru Dutt Writings” She placed her country, and was among the first to do so, on the international map of letters. She, nevertheless, was not slow to realize that her own oriental background of literature was so precious that she would have to commingle it with her earlier abundant knowledge of French and English. She soon began to educate herself, with her father’s help, in Sanskrit. It is to observe that the first generation of women writers like Toru Dutt were confined to the spiritual themes. Their consciousness and sensibilities are imprisoned in the exploration of spiritual themes.

Feminism in Indian English literature is a by –product of the western feminist movement but it acquired sustenance from the freedom struggle. The availability of western feminist theory should not lead us to its

Though she was always identified with Indian and as a daughter of the “green valley of the Ganges; her mind was unclouded by narrow national or linguistic inhibitions or mental barriers. Happily true to herself, she delved into the treasures of English and French literature, the two forging tongues in which she was educated, and acknowledged without reserve her debt to the countries which inspired her. She placed her country, and was among the first to do so, on the international map of letters. She, nevertheless, was not slow to realize that her own oriental background of literature was so precious that she would have to commingle it with her earlier abundant knowledge of French and English. She soon began to educate herself, with her father’s help, in Sanskrit. Some critics think that Toru’s poetry is appreciated because it is so closely associated with her sad life: “Beauty and tragedy and fatality crisscrossed in the life of Toru Dutt and it is difficult, when talking about her poetry, to make any nice distinction between poetry and what C.S. Lewis call