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- Title
COMMUNICATING IN THE THIRD SPACE: A PSYCHO-CULTURAL READING OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY IN MAHESH DATTANI'S RADIO PLAY DO THE NEEDFUL (1997).
- Authors
RANA, AMANDEEP; KAUR, HARPREET
- Abstract
Homosexuality, gay/lesbian relationships and same-sex marriages are a few unconventional issues that still raise a lot of eyebrows in Indian society; these people remain marginalized and uprooted in Indian socio-cultural structure. Mahesh Dattani's first radio play Do the Needful (1997) focuses explicitly on some shared spaces among men, women and third gender people in Indian society which predominantly promotes the patriarchal family composition and discourages any change that challenges the established and existing structure of it. Dattani, very cleverly through the 'thought' technique, brings out his LGBT characters' subconscious thoughts and their conflict with the socially constructed hegemony. They are not what society thinks of them; they are not what they want to be; they are not what they actually are; they are the inhabitants of a different world - a third space. Not only the two lead characters, Alpesh and Lata, but all the marginalized characters search for ease in a third space. The 'otherness' that they feel in the psycho-cultural frame brings them to a common platform - Teri bhi chup, meri bhi chup (your silence and mine as well). The present paper aims at testing Bhabha's postcolonial concept of 'the third space' and 'in-betweenness' in the psycho-cultural sphere, by highlighting and analyzing the space created by various LGBT characters for themselves under the weight of repressed (homo)sexual desires, social structures and cultural constraints.
- Subjects
RADIO dramas; FAMILY structure; LESBIAN relationships; PATRIARCHY; SAME-sex relationships; SAME-sex marriage; LGBTQ+ communities
- Publication
Indialogs, Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2023, Vol 10, p59
- ISSN
2339-8523
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5565/rev/indialogs.227