Mahesh Dattani's Clearing the Rubble: Voice of Marginalized
Keywords:
Feminism, double-standard, discrimination, supernatural machinery, flashback technique, radio performance technique.Abstract
Mahesh Dattani has established himself as one of India’s most promising English playwright. He has made his name not only in the world of Indian English stage craft but also in the world. This paper deals with one of his radio plays Clearing the Rubble. Dattani is a playwright who makes very distinct use of dramatic technique to represent the theme of his plays effectively. This paper tends to highlight this distinct art of Dattani’s craft which most of other analysis have left almost untouched. The study shows how Dattani voices plight of the victim of gender discrimination and double standards through the play. Textual analysis research method has been employed for the analysis of the play.
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