Female Identity & Culture of Modern Women Writers in Feminist Literature with Special Reference to Anne Sexton

Abstract

Modern women writers help modern feminist literature and their creativity and innovation in using their own techniques and genres serve modern literature. Modern feminist writers attempt to explore, express and think of women’s conditions. It is proposed they are successful in transferring their senses, emotions, experiences and issues because they write about their sex and are from women community.

This article will focus on the impact of female identity and culture of modern women writers on Feminist literature and their reflections on Anne Sexton’s Poems. This article will evaluate modern women’s writing and to bring out how far they could develop an especially female framework and culture while dealing with various issues and find a place in literary anthologies. Further, the author will investigate whether they are successful writers who have a firsthand experience of patriarchy who write about themselves, their problems, experiences and various other issues.

In conclusion, some modern women writers such as the selected one in present article have achieved both wide popular readership and much critical attention because they tended largely to focus on their cultural, political and social views most notably their feminism. Also, modern women writers are really talented and creative such as Sexton, a modern woman writer who develops feminism and expresses herself through confessional poetry. Modern women writers even introduced and innovated new genre and technique for their writings about contemporary feminist thought and used to explore modern and traditional – cultural and social issues on women.