Paper Details

Name: Arif Ahammed
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 1-9

All though masculinity studies framework has all the potentiality to initiate an effective discourse for combating gender violence and women emancipation as a substantiation to already existing feminist discourse, the critics/scholars have not considerably used it, especially in the context of Indians English writings. This paper aims at analyzing the main male characters of Mahesh Dattani’s two plays Tara and Ek Alag Mausam (screenplay) by using the framework of masculinity studies to discuss how, in stead of fitting themselves into the orbit of hegemonic masculinity, these characters reflect the traits of more inclusive alternative masculinity thereby elucidating Dattani’s noble attempt to destabilize and subvert the domination of violent and aggressive hegemonic masculinity.
Keywords: masculinity studies, gender violence, emancipation, hegemonic, alternative, inclusive.