Through constant repetitions, a strategy defended by Luce Irigaray and Rosi Braidotti, Ambai—one of the finest of modern Tamil short story writers—mimics stereotypical images, but rewriting them she blows up these representations, achieving their deconstruction. If repetition is the language dominant discourse uses to create a “ripple-like pattern,” Ambai also makes use of it in order to deconstruct the equipment for living given by the dominant discourse.
Ambai is deeply concern about women—the silences they are locked into, the space they try to create for themselves against tremendous odds, the relationship with their bodies and the sorority they share with other women. The purpose of this study is to reflect how the author searches for the right words in In a Forest, a Deer (2006) to give freedom to women whom she describes as courageous subjects in a gender-oppressing cosmos.