In this feminist play Girish Karnad has created a world where the female protagonist is struggling to establish her identity and space of honour, and also posing a challenge to the norms and values made by the male-dominated society.JANARDAN ROY...
But the structure of this play retains the individuality of the female narrative, centrestaging the women's experiences within marriage. Works Cited: 1) Girish Karnad, Three Plays (New Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994) 2) Sudhir Kakar, The Inner World, rpt. The Indian Psyche (Oxford Univ....
Girish Karnad has dealt with the gender issues in almost all his plays. Naga Mandala is a feminist play that not only attacks and exposes male bigotry, the repression of women, the discrimination done to them by men and the patriarchal culture, but also quietly deflates the concept of ...
The paper titled `Cultural semiotics in Girish Karnad's Nagamandala' explores the cultural symbols presented in the play Naga-Mandala (1987-88). Semiotics deals with symbols and signs that represent a meaning in the given context. Cultural semiotics studies the cultural signs and symbols. Naga-...
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Therefore, though these two aspects are completely disjoint, they are two sides of the same coin .Heads and tails; heads-the ego and tails -the snake following its instincts. That Naga is Appanna is indubitable from the very outset, the beginning of Naga's entrance.Rukhaya M...
Karnad for creating a particularly female context, and exposition of female situation in the „man- oriented‟ folk tales which are going to be the basis of the play. He brings within the play the strong association between oral narrative tradition and woman‟s sub -culture existing within...
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Is sex the original sin or the third of the four Purusharthas, the four goals of human life? Is...Durai, Denish Raja K.IUP PublicationsIUP Journal of English Studies
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