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Her last book, Cholamarangal, was published in 1958 and virtually disappeared from the scene. Saraswati Amma (1919-75), the author of Purushanmarillatha Lokam (A World without Men), lived single and isolated, her work applauded only after her death. She found it impossible to continue her writing career and took her own life.

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The serial publication of her novel Uchaveyilum Ham Nilavum (Midday Sun and Tender Moon-light) was canceled because of protest from readers who found her attack on the hypocrisy of idealist men too close to home. Rajalakshmi wrote about father-daughter relationships and the choking effects patriarchal figures could have upon women, particularly those who were accomplished and imaginative. This was a constant social suffer despite the fact that Kerala is now known for its traditional acceptance of women's equality, its matrilineal heritage, the history of women's participation in education and politics, and its commendable male-female ratio. The case of Rajalakshmi (1930-65) illustrates the continuance of the suffocating domestic atmosphere that women had to encounter. However, this transformation was not always easy. Large-scale women's participation in the Gandhian movement helped to bring more women into the public culture, particularly into the political, literary, and academic fields. In the wake of social modernity, the Brahmin community lost much of its power, and Kerala society, as a whole, became radicalized along with the nationalist struggle. Her work provided insights into the many levels of alienation that the women of her powerful orthodox community experienced, much of it resulting from pointless rituals and the burden of tradition and caste, which served only the family patriarch and harmed practically everybody else. It retained the stylistic elegance and control of her poetry and brought in new elements of anger and commitment. She published her first collection of stories in 1937 and followed it up with a wide range of books in different genres, culminating with her most famous novel, Agnisakshi (Witness by Fire), which appeared as late as 1976.ДЇrom the romanticism of her early poetry, she quickly switched to a realist mode at the time of the progressive writers and became known for her craft of the short story. Even after her marriage to a farmer, with whom she raised a large family, she was able to pursue her career in fiction and to emerge as one of the greatest writers of the century. However, she was fortunate to have been born in a Gandhian family actively involved in righting the many social and political battles of the day. Lalithambika's last name, 'Antherjanam' (those who live inside the house), gives ample evidence about the level of social imprisonment that women had to face in an orthodox Brahmin community. However, Kavithammam (1929), a collection of poems by a Catholic nun named Sister Mary Benigna, became a best-seller (over 100,000 copies), and one of the poems in the collection, 'Lokame Yatra' (Farewell, World), a brooding, funereal poem justifying her decision to abandon the material world in favor of the cloister, remains a classic among Romantic poems.Дespite this oppressive environment, the women writers who persisted in their calling are Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-87) and Madhavikutty. In this kind of a situation, women faced exclusionism of the worst kind: the social structure simply didn't allow them to write, for they had 'no room of their own' to engage in creative act. Even Christian and Muslim male writers did not find favorable critical attention because cultural production was monopolized too long by the upper-caste Hindus. Saraswati Amma, and Annie Thayyil and poets like Balamani Amma, Mary John Thottam (Sister Benigna), Mary John Koothattukulam, and Muthukulam Parvathi Amma had emerged as major figures in a largely upper-caste, male-dominated world of Malayalam literature. During the first half of the century, fiction writers like Lalithambika Antherjanam, K. In fact, much of the good modernist and post-modernist fiction and poetry published over the second half of the century has been by women.

Most of the women who have contributed in the form of literary works are upper-caste women and Christian women. Women writers in Malayalam literature have made rather important contributions to the literary field.

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