Manuscript Number : GISRRJ236634

Patriarchy As a Major Theme in Tara

Authors(1) :-Abhay Nath Thakur

The plays of Mahesh Dattani primarily deals with middle class life in urban India. The plays are mostly based in Bangalore. They are peopled with Gujrati characters. The major issues Mahesh Dattani deals with are homosexuality, gender identity and construction, the pressure of the past, the hollowness of middle class life and the family as a battlefield.He uses all the resources of theatre at his command. The play is about disability and all that it causes in a certain social enviornment. It is about patriarchy and gender discrimination. It is about power play within the family. It is also about middle class morality. It depicts the pressure of the past . Patriarchy is a central theme in many of his plays.

Authors and Affiliations

Abhay Nath Thakur
Assistant Professor, Department of English, MLK PG College, Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh

Patriarchy, Gender Discrimination, family, isolation, discrimination

  1. Dattani, Mahesh, Tara, NewDelhi : Ravi Dayal, 1995
  2. Dattani, Mahesh.Final Solutions and Other Plays, Madras : Manas (Affiliated East West Press), 1994.
  3. Naik, M.K.A History of Indian English Literature, New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi 1982
  4.  Nandy, Ashis The Intimate Enemy : Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonisation, New Delhi : OUP, 1983.
  5.  Reddy, PBayappa, Studies in Indian writings in English with a focus on Indian English Drama, New Delhi : Prestige Books, 1990.
 

Publication Details

Published in : Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January-February 2024
Date of Publication : 2024-01-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 114-116
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ236634
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

Cite This Article :

Abhay Nath Thakur, "Patriarchy As a Major Theme in Tara", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.114-116, January-February.2024
URL : https://gisrrj.com/GISRRJ236634

Article Preview