'Victimization of Women in Indian Society' simulated in the verse of Eunice de Souza DOCX

Title	'Victimization of Women in Indian Society' simulated in the verse of Eunice de Souza
Author	veera V malleswari
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‘Victimization of Women in Indian Society’ simulated in the verse of Eunice de Souza Dr. A.V.V.V.Malleswaramma Lecturer in English A.N.R.College, Gudivada, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. India Eunice de Souza is (born 1940) is a contemporary Indian English poet, literary critic and novelist. Her ...

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'Victimization of Women in Indian Society' simulated in the verse of Eunice de Souza Dr. A.V.V.V.Malleswaramma Lecturer in English A.N.R.College, Gudivada, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. India Eunice de Souza is (born 1940) is a contemporary Indian English poet, literary critic and novelist. Her poetic collections are- Fix (1979), Women in Dutch Painting (1988), Ways of Belonging (1990) and Selected and New Poems (1994). She wrote four collections of folk tales for children- All About Birbal (1969), Himalayan Tales (1973), More About Birbal, and Tales of Birbal. Her book Talking Poems (1999) is a series of interviews with established Indian poets writing in English is very famous. She is highly conscious of art, and her poems are praised for understatement, economy and visual shape. Bruce King comments that 'De Souza is in tune with the feminist movement in contemporary poetry, in her directness of speech, self-revelation and non-nostalgic memories of family life'. She writes instantly from a context and speaks about the victimization of women in Indian society, especially Goan society. There is a force and sharpness in her verse while satirizing different aspects of male domination and oppression of women. She feels that the oppression that women face in the society is always not apparent. Often it is psychological. They are confined in religious, traditional and societal boundaries to become stereotypes and this condition prevail throughout the centuries. De Souza discusses these issues in her two collections of poetry: Fix and Women in Dutch Painting. According to Keki N. Daruwalla: De Souza explores the Goan catholic milieu clinically, the-turned-outsider, who probes the foibles, attitudes and complexes of the community. The collection is centred around her Goan community. 1 De Souza writes about the innocence of teenage girls because of the secrecy maintained in the issue of sexuality, psychology of spinsters, suffering of pregnant women, colour-complexes nourished by women, penchant of male child, unvoiced suffering of women in the family, seclusion, suppression of feelings due to fear either of a husband or societal norms, and finally about the women who break these chains to attain freedom from traditional codes of the society. De Souza's first collection of poems Fix picturises the hypocrisy and conservative falsity of Goan society. She ridicules the society for its double standards, male domination and 1...