Mona lisa changkija biography of william

ORCID: Email: deb gmail. Email: praty gmail. Rupkatha Journal , Vol. While the academic world talks of different waves of feminism that have emerged in Europe and the US in the past few centuries, the feminists from the third world countries have reservations on the use of a western framework of feminism in investigating the challenges faced by the women from third world countries.

The structural discrimination that permeates the gender divide in India is so variegated that a homogenous reprisal will be inadequate to understand the problems that persist among several ethnic communities in a postcolonial context. However, the success of this effort seems limited only to the literary world as efforts are still underway to bring substantial changes into the political world.

Journalist-poet, Tiamerenla Monalisa Changkija, is the only woman editor, proprietor and publisher of an English Daily – Nagaland Page – in the Northeast.

For a very long time, the literary and intellectual world has been dominated by male authority. This is why the corpus of knowledge relating to philosophy, history, theology, literature, and even science was not only androcentric but was also misogynistic in its tone and language. Texts related to women or about women were also produced mostly by men and the female experiences were hardly recorded and they tended to exist in the periphery or the footnotes Ray, , p.

Consequently, women read about themselves through the perception of men, and later on, when they wrote about themselves, they conformed to the plastic image of women created by men. This image of women as conceived of by the creative and sexual imaginary of men produced a model which was to be appropriated and internalized by women.

Tiamerenla Monalisa Changkija is an Indian journalist and poet from Nagaland.

This is because the phallocentric matrix of vocabulary and subsequent cultural production were devoid of lexicon that could accommodate feminine expressions Jones, Writing played a pivotal role in the emancipation of women not only from patriarchal domination but also from themselves, which had so long been entrenched into the matrixes of patriarchy.

But this option remains inconsequential in peripheral ethnic societies marred by violence and remoteness. While relating to their poetic work, this chapter will contextualize their experiences with the socio-political history of the places from where they write.