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Decoding Alienation: A Gen Z Re-Reading of Emotional Disconnection and Intimacy in Kamala Das's "The Freaks"
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Female Desire, Emotional Alienation, Gen Z Reading, Hook-up Culture, Situationships, Contemporary Intimacy.
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Kamala Das is most profoundly known for her bold and candid exhibition of raw female desire through a confessional style of writing. She has frequently been compared by scholars to Sylvia Plath for her emotional intensity and personal exposure in poetry. Kamala Das's works, particularly her poetry, have largely been explored within the framework of feminist literary discourse, where society and its patriarchal structures are often subjected to sharp criticism for their treatment of women. As a result, her poems have repeatedly been scrutinized for their erotic content and, at times, narrowly categorized as erotic literature. Most of her works have already been meticulously analysed for their confessional mode and recurring themes such as love, desire, marriage, lust, emotional transparency, and female subjectivity. Various critical approaches, including feminism and psychoanalysis, have been applied to her writings, leading to a perception that her literary corpus has been examined from almost every possible angle. This raises an important question: what remains left to study in Kamala Das's poetry? This paper attempts to respond to this question by offering a fresh interpretation of her poem "The Freak" through a Gen Z perspective. It examines how Das's emotional transparency regarding male-female relationships of her time continues to indicate similar relational possibilities even in contemporary society. By placing the poem within the context of Gen Z hook-up culture, the study demonstrates how her portrayal of physical intimacy devoid of emotional fulfilment closely parallels modern relationship experiences. Contemporary Gen Z terms such as situationships, red flags, toxic relationships, thirsting, rizz, and clout are used as interpretative tools to show how a single poem written from a deeply personal experience evolves into a universal representation of emotional disconnection in intimate relationships. The paper ultimately argues that "The Freak" extends beyond its temporal context to mirror the emotional realities of Gen Z relationship culture, proving that Kamala Das's intensely personal poetic expression continues to function as a living, relevant commentary on intimacy and emotional alienation across generations.
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Farzana Batool, "Decoding Alienation: A Gen Z Re-Reading of Emotional Disconnection and Intimacy in Kamala Das's "The Freaks"", International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT), ISSN:2320-2882, Volume.14, Issue 7, pp.e796-e802, July 2026, Available at :http://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2607497.pdf
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