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Volume : II, Issue : V, June - 2012 From Margins to Centre: Rani's Journey in Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala SOMVEER DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The present paper seeks to examine the dynamics and dimensions of Rani's journey from the
marginalized position to the central one in her marital life. In the beginning, she as a naïve and submissive
girl is found in a marginalized position. She is subjected to various forms of deprivation, humiliation
subjugation and violence under the iron rule of patriarchy. But by and by she gathers courage and selfconfidence
and becomes Rani in real sense, occupying the central and consequential position in her marital
life. Though the journey is fraught with trials and tribulations, pains and privations, humiliations and
harassments, she succeeds in punctuating the male ego and his inflated sense of power over woman and
exposing his duplicitous face. Rani occupies the central position in household affairs by subverting the value
system of patriarchal order. In her new role, she gets the actual fulfilment in social terms of her name.
Though she emerges as a completely changed woman with modern outlook, entirely in harmony with her
desires and decisions and true to her wishes and instincts, she does not reject the male world. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : SOMVEER, (2012). From Margins to Centre: Rani's Journey in Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. V, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1080.pdf References : - Primary Sources: Karnad, Girish Naga-Mandla: A Play with a Cobra, Trans. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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- Secondary Sources: Krishanamayi. “Redefinig the Insurgent Female Psyche in an Andrcentric milieu,” The Indian Journal of English Studies. Vol. XLI, 2003-04.
- Barry, Peter. “Psychoanalytic Criticism,” Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (New York: Manchester University Press, 2007.
- Rajeshwar, M. “The Inner World of Indian Women:” Feminism and Literature, ed. Veena Noble Dass. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1995.
- Sarat Babu, Manchi “The Concept of Chastity and Naga-Mandala,” The Plays of Girish Karnad: Critical Perspectives, ed. Jaydipsinh Dodiya, (New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1999.
- Toril Moi, Toril. Sexual/ Textual Politics (London: Routeledge, 2002.
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