Abstract 20. Dr. Ajay Sekhar
Land of Demons: Sara Joseph’s Bhoomirakshasam
as a Subaltern Critique of Theatre and Life
Abstract
The
paper analyses the Malayalam play by Sara Joseph a leading woman writer in
Kerala today. It is contextualized in
the current conjecture of women’s movement and cultural articulations in
Malayalam. Feminists and new democratic cultural activists in contemporary
Kerala identify the omnipresent and potent discourse of Brahmanic patriarchy in
every sites of life. It is in these
contexts that a Malayalam woman author is touching upon the demonic debate
again. Sara Joseph’s attempt in Bhoomirakshasam (Land of Demons 2009) could be read as an attempt to render
visible on stage the vulgarity and ugliness of this demonic patriarchy. It is also an artful articulation of dissent
and assertion of new subjectivities by a woman author. It can also be read as part of her epic
attempts to reread and deconstruct Indian Sanskrit epics from a gendered
subaltern perspective.
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