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A Slice of Night

A Slice of Night

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Contemporary social reality forms the basis of Gayatribala Panda’s poems. She neither celebrates the politically correct feminist strength nor applauds feminine modesty. While confronting cruelty and indifference she experiences in a patriarchal society, she evokes an unchartered territory of feminine consciousness through powerful poetic narrative of resilience and resoluteness. What makes her a unique female voice lies in her construction of an enduring archetypical feminine identity unique to uphold the stability of our families, culture and civilization. The vulnerability and sensitivity exhibited in the poems are marked with a rebellious withdrawal into an eloquent poise and a defiant stand. The feminine individuality is asserted significantly and boldly by its indulgence in vivid images of violence, pain, injustice and unconsummated love. A Slice of Night is sharp and exhilarating. The poems are strikingly simple, seductively communicative and imaginatively expressive. The realism embedded in it is engrossing and captivating. Dr. Gayatribala Panda (b.1977) is a well-known Odia poet, fiction writer, literary critic and editor. She has to her credit eighteen collections of poems (five of which translated into Hindi, two into English), four novels, two collections of short stories and one collection of essays.

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Gayatribala Panda / indian / Manua Das / Odia / poetry / translation /