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- Title
Construction of 'Homo' Space in Dattani's Select Plays.
- Authors
Kingsley Jesu Abel. A.; Duresh, J. G.
- Abstract
Mahesh Dattani is a renowned contemporary Indian playwright, director and actor. He writes plays and directs a few them. He has received numerous awards including the prestigious Sahitya Akademi in 1998 for his collection of plays entitled Final Solution and Other Plays. He is often considered to be a controversial playwright. He illuminates the dark aspects of society and turns them into a debatable issue in the Indian literary arena. This paper entitled "Construction of 'Homo' space in Dattani's plays" is an attempt to critically evaluate the pathetic picture of homosexuals in the heteronormative society as portrayed by Dattani. The ambivalent state of the homosexuals mind is the central theme of this paper. Homosexuals are having an internal conflict with themselves and with the heteronormative society. This paper attempts to provide new insights into the incongruity between homosexuality and the heteronormative values of the society. The plays that are selected study are On a Muggy Night in Mumbai (1998), Bravely Fought the Queen (1991), Do the Needful (1997) and Night Queen (1999).
- Subjects
INDIA; GAY people in literature; DATTANI, Mahesh; DRAMATISTS; DRAMA; ON a Muggy Night in Mumbai (Play); BRAVELY Fought the Queen (Play); DO the Needful (Play)
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article