The Love Queen of Malabar

by Weisbord, Merrily

• ISBN13: 9780773537910
• ISBN10: 0773537910
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

Kamala Das (1934-2009) is one of India's most beloved and controversial literary figures. She was hailed and reviled as the first Indian woman to write an autobiographical cult classic about love and desire. Admirers dubbed her, "The First Feminist Emotional Revolutionary of Our Time." The tabloid press called her "The Love Queen of Malabar."

Author Biography

Merrily Weisbord found Das's work so compelling that she flew to South India to meet her. The Love Queen of Malabar is the story of their decade-long friendship, an experiment in mutual revelation. Recounting the development of their relationship, Weisbord relates the dramatic events of Das's life, including her transition from celibacy to sexual awakening at age sixty-seven when, provoking the greatest scandal of her notorious life, she converted to Islam for love and renewal.

Table of Contents

Cochin, Munnar, Kovalam, South India, 1995
The Stranger and I	p. 3
An Introduction	p. 10
Love in Another Country	p. 17
Esoteric Exotica	p. 26
Lines Addressed to a Devadesi	p. 42
Montreal, Laurentian Mountains, New York, 1995
Maple Leaves Red as Drying Blood	p. 51
I Shall Carry You with Me	p. 61
Child Bride	p. 75
Riding a Tiger	p. 88
Delhi, Cochin, Kovalam, 1997
Orbits of Friendship	p. 107
Life Is but a Dream	p. 120
The Husband Who Neither Loved nor Used Her but Was a Ruthless Watcher	p. 126
Cochin, Calicut, Malabar, 2000
Bliss in the Scent of His Perspiration	p. 141
Beyond the Outskirts of the City	p. 155
The Fear of the Year	p. 168
A Pale Green Pond	p. 177
The Laurentians, Montreal, 2000
Gift of a Man	p. 189
The Depth of Sequestered Pools	p. 202
Cochin, 2003
A Touch of Moonlight	p. 209
You Embrace Me	p. 218
Cochin, 2004
Exhalations	p. 229
A Cloudburst of Intense Fantasy	p. 237
Cochin, Punnayurkulam, 2005
That Close to Me	p. 247
The Place of Quiet Happiness	p. 257
Epilogue	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 273
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