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- Title
'BEHIND THE FACADE OF SUBVERSION': EXTERIORIZING MALE FANTASY IN VADAKKAN PATTUKAL'S BALLADS OF NORTH MALABAR.
- Authors
L. R., Annapoorna
- Abstract
Generally set against the backdrop of the feudal and medieval Kerala, ballads of Northern Malabar glorify and exalt the adventures of valiant men and women of Northern Malabar. This study mainly aims to demonstrate the apparent female heroism depicted in these ballads as sheer patriarchal constructions. The main objective of this study will be to challenge the hitherto notions generally attached to Vadakkan Pattukal as they constitute a paragon of female empowerment. Much attention has been offered to the study ofspecific ballad, Mathileri Kanni, from the point ofits portrayal of heroic endeavours of the female characters. My intention is to look at it anew, reading it against the grain of the dominant patriarchal scholarship. In order to achieve this I would attempt to re-read the ballad by paying more attention to its narrative and poetic strategies that construct its meanings, thereby positioning the readers to understand the underlying patriarchal constructions employed in it from a specific point of view. Furthermore, in this paper, I would critically explore the various tropes of depiction of women which will evidently help to prove the deliberate obscuring of the male agencies. Moreover, the proposed study will strive to demonstrate how the general perception of cross-dressing as a possible avenue for exhibiting female sexual assertion and as a general liberativepraxis gets completely overturned.
- Subjects
POP ballads; SELF-efficacy; COURAGE; PATRIARCHY; STEREOTYPES
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article