Kandaswamy’s Poetry: Choosing the Margin as Space of Radical Openness

Abstract

Present epoch is the epoch of space, a complex set of relations. Marginality is the space that difference makes. It is a site of deprivation, repression, and oppression. Thus spaces can tell tacit stories and alter histories. This paper contextualizes Bell Hooks idea of marginality as a place of radical possibility and resistance to show feminist perspectives of Dalit marginal spatial reality through the study of the select poetry of Kandaswami from her debut poetry collection Touch. Her poetry is thunderous of all her writings that produce a realistic picture of gruesome daily occurrences of gender prejudice and double bondage of dalit woman.