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Rewriting Womanhood through Intertextuality: A Feminist Reading of Girish Karnad’s Major Plays

Author(s) Krishna Kumar Dhar Dubey
Country India
Abstract This research undertakes an extensive intertextual feminist analysis of Girish Karnad’s major plays—Tughlaq, Hayavadana, Naga-Mandala, and Tale-Danda—to examine how womanhood is constructed, deconstructed, and reimagined across myth, history, folklore, and socio-religious realism. Drawing upon Julia Kristeva’s theory of intertextuality and feminist frameworks developed by Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the study explores how Karnad’s female characters negotiate patriarchy, silence, sexuality, desire, agency, and resistance within rigid socio-cultural systems. The paper argues that Karnad does not merely reproduce inherited narratives but strategically rewrites intertextual sources—classical myths, oral folktales, historical chronicles, and reformist histories—to expose and critique gender hierarchies embedded in Indian society. Through close textual and comparative analysis, the study highlights recurring feminist motifs such as female voice versus silence, body politics, chastity, transgression, and the destabilization of normative gender roles. By foregrounding women as central agents of meaning rather than peripheral figures, the research makes a significant contribution to Indian English drama studies and feminist literary criticism.
Keywords Intertextuality, Feminist Criticism, Girish Karnad, Indian English Drama, Representation of Women.
Published In Volume 17, Issue 1, January-June 2026
Published On 2026-04-14
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