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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 2(11), pp. 271-276, December, 2014 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2014.073 Review Gender-Divide and Feminine Subversion in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out
Dr. Dashrath Gatt
Asstt. Professor of English, Govt. College, Bhattu Kalan, (Fatehabad) Haryana. Email: dashrathgatt@gmail.com
Accepted 10 December 2014
The position of
woman in this world has become focal point of discourse all across this
world and this concern with the plight of woman finds manifestation in
different art forms. The play Lights Out by Manjula Padmanabhan, centred
round a rape incident, throws many probing questions regarding the
forces governing the man-woman relationship and offers answers to these
questions in its own way. The present paper is an attempt to analyze the
man-woman relationship from the view point of a gender-identity and
constant power struggle between the two important entities of
society—man and woman where the former maneuvers to make the latter
subservience to himself. The cultural, social inheritance of dominance
by man across the time line offers him exclusive authority to silence
any voice from woman that asserts or protests against him, and this
results in disintegration or subversion of woman.
Cite This Article As: Gatt D (2014). Gender-Divide and Feminine Subversion in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 2(11): 271-276
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