• Anjana Krishna S

This paper aims to analyse Kamala Das’s short stories from a queer perspective and also undertakes an enquiry into the factors that causes identity crisis in the lesbian characters of Kamala Das’s short stories. The main purpose of this paper is to conduct an analytical study of Das’s queer themed short stories. Kamala Das has written around seven queer themed short stories in her career out of which “The Sandal Trees”, “Woman”, “Deceit” and “Thirteen Year Daughter” are taken into consideration. This paper is also a humble try to re-establishes the fact that Kamala Das has made many unforgettable contributions in the field of queer literature.

Kamala Das , Queer, Sedgwick

"“Conflicting Gender Identities & “Coming Out” in Hetero-patriarchal paradigm: A Queer Analysis of Kamala Das’s selected short stories”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.626-647, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908890.pdf

"“Conflicting Gender Identities & “Coming Out” in Hetero-patriarchal paradigm: A Queer Analysis of Kamala Das’s selected short stories”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp626-647, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908890.pdf