K. Saraswathi Amma (14 April 1919 â€" 26 December 1975)[1] was a
Malayalam feminist writer whose short stories have been anthologised
in translation in several American texts. According to critic Jancy
James, "In the entire history of women's writing in Kerala, Saraswathi
Amma's is the most tragic case of the deliberate neglect of female
genius."[2]K. Saraswathi Amma made her entry into the Malayalam
literary scenario with a short story published in 1938, which was
followed by 12 volumes of short stories, one novel, a play. In 1958, a
book of essays titled Purushanmarillatha Lokam[2] came out. In her
time she was dubbed as a 'man hater'. But current feminist scholars
have celebrated her as a genius.[2][3]J. Devika in her article titled
'Beyond Kulina and Kulata: The Critique of Gender Difference in the
Writings of K. Saraswati Amma', in Indian Journal of Gender Studies
re-reads the writings of K. Saraswathi Amma, whom she describes "an
author marginalised within the Malayalee literary universe and
labelled as an incorrigible man-hater." She considers her paper an
"effort to read her writing as an engagement with the positions taken
in the debates around modern gender in the early 20th-century
Malayalee public sphere."[3]
Malayalam feminist writer whose short stories have been anthologised
in translation in several American texts. According to critic Jancy
James, "In the entire history of women's writing in Kerala, Saraswathi
Amma's is the most tragic case of the deliberate neglect of female
genius."[2]K. Saraswathi Amma made her entry into the Malayalam
literary scenario with a short story published in 1938, which was
followed by 12 volumes of short stories, one novel, a play. In 1958, a
book of essays titled Purushanmarillatha Lokam[2] came out. In her
time she was dubbed as a 'man hater'. But current feminist scholars
have celebrated her as a genius.[2][3]J. Devika in her article titled
'Beyond Kulina and Kulata: The Critique of Gender Difference in the
Writings of K. Saraswati Amma', in Indian Journal of Gender Studies
re-reads the writings of K. Saraswathi Amma, whom she describes "an
author marginalised within the Malayalee literary universe and
labelled as an incorrigible man-hater." She considers her paper an
"effort to read her writing as an engagement with the positions taken
in the debates around modern gender in the early 20th-century
Malayalee public sphere."[3]
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