Dissentions and Deconstructions in Meena Kandasamy's Poems

The works of Dalit women writers present a different world of varying shades and concerns compared to their male counter parts. Writers from the marginalized section of society have put forward a subversive pattern, which knocks the consciousness of the hegemonic cultures concomitantly, thereby generating confidence and pride in them. This enables them to deconstruct the traditional mindset which had made them oppressed and to persuade the upper caste to view them as equals rather than as pitiful victims. In a way their writings actualise their claim to rejuvenate the third world women and to urge them to express their own dreams, aspirations, self-reliant outlooks and speak for themselves, instead of spoken of by their male counterparts. They not only protest against the traditional hegemony, but also deconstruct them to bring about revolutionary changes in the society.