The Theory and Praxis of Feminist Criticism

Sujata is a poet, novelist, critic and an academic. She writes in Hindi. Her earlier works—Antim Maun ke Beech (poetry collection, 2016), Ek Bataa Do (novel, 2019), Stree Nirmiti (criticism, 2019)—showcase a passionate mix of the experienced and the envisioned, the felt and the thought. If her creative writings chart the contours of feminist spaces imaginatively, her critical writings enter the seams of conventional canonicity to reconfigure this space ideologically, empirically and academically. Her latest offerings, Alochana ka Stree Paksha: Paddhati, Parampara Aur Paath (2021) and Duniya Mein Aurat (2022) are no exception.

In Alochana ka Stree Paksha: Paddhati, Parampara Aur Paath, Sujata continues with her signature journey to map the context and the text of feminist theory and practice from the vantage point of women’s poetry. The ostensible aim is to intervene in and problematize the canonical and receptive context of female creativity, especially in Hindi, at the cross-section of history, gender, caste, class, region and race.