Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala
The article engages with the feminist approach in Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala (1988) in the framework of postcolonial gender analysis. Naga-Mandala (1988) addresses the continued uneven power relations between female and male gender. Karnad's female character, Rani, in Naga-Mandala, is primarily pitiable, downgraded and most importantly an object of patriarchal social and political dominance and authority. The paper postulates Rani as a site of theoretical transformations, engaging with issues of gender subjectivity, sexuality, and power positionality in relation to the patriarchal Indian state. It further argues that Rani situates a performative self in the text through an interrogatory narrative voice that succeeds in participating in the critique of patriarchal subjectivity and hegemonic feminist positioning while inserting a resistant feminist ideology into gender discourse to re-envision the role of Indian women in India's development. Naga-Mandala echoes a substantial constituent of feminism. The drama enquires the patriarchal ethical enigma which burdens women with fidelity to their husbands but not the loyalty of men to their wives.
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Feminism, Gender discourse, Girish Karnad, Male-dominance, Oppression, Patriarchy
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(1) Amara Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Khan, A. (2020). Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala. Global Regional Review, V(II), 102-108. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-II).11
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CHICAGO : Khan, Amara. 2020. "Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala." Global Regional Review, V (II): 102-108 doi: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-II).11
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HARVARD : KHAN, A. 2020. Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala. Global Regional Review, V, 102-108.
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MHRA : Khan, Amara. 2020. "Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala." Global Regional Review, V: 102-108
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MLA : Khan, Amara. "Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala." Global Regional Review, V.II (2020): 102-108 Print.
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OXFORD : Khan, Amara (2020), "Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala", Global Regional Review, V (II), 102-108
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TURABIAN : Khan, Amara. "Metamorphosis of a Despondent Indian Woman: A Feminist Evaluation of Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala." Global Regional Review V, no. II (2020): 102-108. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-II).11