Kamala Dasûs My Story: A Critical Perspective

Kamala Dasûs 'My Story': A Critical Perspective --
 Dr. Dipti Mahanta

As early as 1949, Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex wrote: çWomen do not set themselves up as subject and hence have erected no virile myth in which their projects are reflected; they have no religion or poetry of their own: they still dream through the dreams of men.é1 What Simone de Beauvoir said half a century ago is still relevant today especially in India where we have not yet witnessed a proliferation of autobiographies by women writers. Work like Kamala Dasûs My Story which is sensationalized as a best-selling book with the writerûs photographs donning the cover to make it more saleable, in a way points out the virtual absence of this form of literature among women writers.

Virginia Woolf, one of the pioneers of feminist literary criticism exhorts every woman who adopts the writerûs profession to undertake two enterprises: firstly, to çkill the Angel in the Houseé and secondly, to tell the truth about her own experience as a body".........

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