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'''Jayaprabha''' (born 1957) is an [[India]]n critic and poet writing in [[Telugu language|Telugu]]. She is considered a pioneer of the feminist movement in Telugu literary criticism and poetry.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=VsAPXz5ByLYC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=jayaprabha#v=onepage&q=jayaprabha&f=false|title=Texts And Their Worlds - I Literature Of India An Introduction|last=Kurian|first=Anna|date=2006-10-05|publisher=Foundation Books|isbn=9788175963009|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/lp/prj/ptp/dic/en15345853.htm|title=Poets translating Poets - Poets - Goethe-Institut|website=www.goethe.de|access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=WfxZAAAAMAAJ&q=jayaprabha+poet&dq=jayaprabha+poet|title=Kakatiya Journal of English Studies|date=1994-01-01|publisher=Department of English, Kakatiya University.|language=en}}</ref> Jayaprabha's poetry focusses on women's issues, their problems and strengths and often attacks established gender norms.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=VsAPXz5ByLYC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=jayaprabha#v=onepage&q=jayaprabha&f=false|title=Texts And Their Worlds - I Literature Of India An Introduction|last=Kurian|first=Anna|date=2006-10-05|publisher=Foundation Books|isbn=9788175963009|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=WfxZAAAAMAAJ&q=jayaprabha+poet&dq=jayaprabha+poet|title=Kakatiya Journal of English Studies|date=1994-01-01|publisher=Department of English, Kakatiya University.|language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Jayaprabha was born on 29 July 1957. She did her master's degree in Telugu literature and acquired a Ph.D. from Osmania University for her thesis on the progress and status of Telugu drama.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tramesh.tripod.com/kavita/id42.html|title=jayaprabha|website=tramesh.tripod.com|access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref> She currently lives in Secundrabad.

== Professional career ==
In 1981 Jayaprabha and K. Satyavathi started a feminist monthly Lohita. Her first collection of poems "Yuddhonmukhamga" (Towards War) was published in 1984.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&pg=PA596&dq=jayaprabha+poet#v=onepage&q=jayaprabha%20poet&f=false|title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century|last=Tharu|first=Susie J.|last2=Lalita|first2=Ke|date=1993-01-01|publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY|isbn=9781558610293|language=en}}</ref>

Jayaprabha's second book of poems "Vaamanudi Moodo Paadam" (Third foot of Vamana) was published in 1988. This collection contained two of her landmark feminist poems 'Chupulu' (Stares) and 'Pytani tagaleyyali' (Burn the saree). Chupulu translated as 'looks' or sometimes 'stares' is a poem about the male gaze. It begins with the poet-persona describing the assault of stares she endures daily and ends with the poet hoping for the day when women can return the stares and reclaim public spaces for themselves.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=5r53boZNp64C&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=jayaprabha+poet+birthdate#v=onepage&q=jayaprabha%20poet%20birthdate&f=false|title=New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English|last=Prasad|first=Amar Nath|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=9788176256049|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=VsAPXz5ByLYC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=jayaprabha#v=onepage&q=jayaprabha&f=false|title=Texts And Their Worlds - I Literature Of India An Introduction|last=Kurian|first=Anna|date=2006-10-05|publisher=Foundation Books|isbn=9788175963009|language=en}}</ref> In 'Pytani tagaleyyali' (Burn the saree) Jayaprabha equates the saree with confirmity to traditional gender norms and says women must abandon the saree in order to break free from traditional gender norms.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=AXiNXRM_KzMC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=jayaprabha+poet#v=onepage&q=jayaprabha%20poet&f=false|title=Indian Poetry: Modernism and After : a Seminar|last=Saccidānandan|date=2001-01-01|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=9788126010929|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bonnie|first=Zare|last2=Afsar|first2=Mohammed|date=2012-04-01|title=Burn the Sari or Save the Sari? Dress as a Form of Action in Two Feminist Poems|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-335189784/burn-the-sari-or-save-the-sari-dress-as-a-form-of|journal=ARIEL|volume=43|issue=2|issn=0004-1327}}</ref>

In 1988 Jayaprabha published "Bhavo Kavitvamlo Stri" a critique of women in Telugu romantic poetry. The study criticised the representation of women in the works of major male poets. Considered a pioneering work of feminist criticism of Telugu literature, it attracted both controversy and accolades. For a while it was prescribed reading in Bangalore University.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&pg=PA596&dq=jayaprabha+poet#v=onepage&q=jayaprabha%20poet&f=false|title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century|last=Tharu|first=Susie J.|last2=Lalita|first2=Ke|date=1993-01-01|publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY|isbn=9781558610293|language=en}}</ref>

In 1991 another collection of poems "Ikkad Kursini Varsham, Ekkadi Maghanidi?" (The Rain that Falls Here, Where is The Cloud From?) was published.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL207776A/Jayaprabha?sort=old|title=Jayaprabha|last=OpenLibrary.org|website=Open Library|access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref> She also published a revised version of her Ph.D. thesis on Telugu theatre "Naalugo Goda" (Fourth Wall) in the same year.

"Unforeseen Affection And Other Poems" was published in 2005. It contains a selection of her Telugu love poems translated into English by [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]], former [[Prime Minister of India]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/01/07/d601072106112.htm |title = The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 575}}</ref>

Her poems have also been published in numerous national and international anthologies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/lp/prj/ptp/dic/en15345853.htm|title=Poets translating Poets - Poets - Goethe-Institut|website=www.goethe.de|access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref>

==Selected works==
=== Poetry ===
* Yuddhonmukhamga (1984)
* Vaamanudi Moodo Paadam (1988)
* Ikkad Kursini Varsham, Ekkadi Maghanidi (1991)
* Unforeseen Affection And Other Poems (2005)

==References==
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