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Kamala Das, Jamaica Kincaid and Rita Dove’s poems, fascinate us not only for the seemingly effortless ways in which they breakthrough the rhetorics of the stereotypes in these poems but also for countless ways in which they illumine unfair edicts of the predominantly patriarchal structures embedded in the colonial as well as everyday discourses. The selected three short poems by these women poets from across the world deftly negotiate the realms of inequality, subjugation, powerlessness, gender politics and injustices resisting the designs of the dominant discourse upon them. These resistant discourses wrestle out a critical space for their multiple subjectivities. Intersectionality gives a distinct perspective to their lived experiences and brings into its purview the various factors that operate upon an individual either in isolation or in combination and purposefully or inadvertently devalues them and denies them the right to live with dignity. Despite the lessons taught by history, these exclusions, disparities, injustices and a lack of sensitivity towards fellow human beings continue to plague the post-colonial world. There are many ways in which the oral, literary and electronic representations of the marginalized and the excluded get consumed and persist in circulating biased images that tend to create a long- lasting impression on the recipient’s minds. These representations have been revisited and portrayed in a counter canonical fashion by the three poets taken up for our present study. Keywords: Intersectionality, Resistant,Discourses,Power

Intersectionality, Resistant, Discourses,Power

"Three Resistant Discourses through the Intersectional lens", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.a780-a786, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309093.pdf

"Three Resistant Discourses through the Intersectional lens", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppa780-a786, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309093.pdf