Engendered subjectiveness: Construction of queer idenity in vijay tendulkar's a friend's story and mahesh dattani's on a muggy night in mumbai
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2014
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Central University of Punjab
Abstract
The present study deals with comparative analysis of Vijay Tendulkar's A Friend's
Story and Mahesh Dattani's On a Muggy Night in Mumbai with respect to treatment of
queer issues, their repression and social stigma faced by queer individuals. The focus
is to find out how various social, economic and political discourses work towards
repression of queer identities and reaffirming the oppressive discourse of
heteronormative sexuality. Both Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani have employed
the fundamental themes of queer identity, oppressive attitude of society and
psychological dilemma of queer individuals in their respective plays. In both the plays
under study i.e . A Friend's Story by Vijay Tendulkar and On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
by Dattani, there runs the unconventional theme of alternate sexuality which has been
dealt with compassion and understanding. This study takes into account various
unexplored issues related to queer identity. This study explores how these plays raise
the issue of the emancipation of rights of queers and undertakes a comparative
analysis of the two plays in order to discover varying attitudes towards this issue in
Indian drama corresponding to the periods of the two playwrights.
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Queer identity, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani
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Chandal, Priynka (2014) Engendered subjectiveness Construction of queer idenity in vijay tendulkar's a friend's story and mahesh dattani's on a muggy night in mumbai.