Feminist Approach in Girish Karnad’s Nagmandala

Abstract

Aim: The following paper aims to discusses Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala (1988) as the feminist viewpoint within the context of post-imperial gender analysis. The study suggests Rani as a location of theoretical developments in relation to the patriarchal Indian state, addressing issues with gender subjectivity, sexuality, and power positionality.

Methodology and Approaches: Karnad’s approach to feminist study is Intersectionality, Representation of women, Gender power Dynamics, Language and Discourse, Historical and social context and many more.

Outcome: Examination of Gender Role, Agency and empowerment, Intersectionality and caste, Challenging Patriarchy, Language and Representation, Female Sexuality etc.

Conclusions and Suggestions: The main element behind suppressing this truth was middle-class politeness. As a consequence of Karnad's narrative, his female performers appear as humans in search of sexual fulfillment However, she rejects the conventional concept of center while margin, according to which the center is the dominance of males and the margin is comprised of oppressed women. This brief analysis of women's fiction in Girish Karnad's plays demonstrates that he travels through numerous phases and includes women from the Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, and Tribal societies as he chronicles the evolution of women in India from times past to the contemporary/postmodern era.