Un(s)pecified space: A Spatial Reading of Bravely Fought the Queen
Abstract
Mahesh Dattani’s plays thought to be the mirrors of contemporary Indian society. Discussing the undercurrent of so-called ‘modern life’- he is one of the pioneers in highlighting the ever changing human relations vis-à-vis space and time. In this very paper, a spatial reading has been attempted regarding Dattani’s Bravely Fought the Queen. The focus of this paper is to produce a spatial reading of Bravely Fought the Queen to understand what dynamic roles the spaces in the text play in the construction of this gendered identity and similarly how gendered practices and the subversion of them causes the space to modify itself.
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