Gender Expression in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife: The Outcast Queen

Abstract

The research paper analyses the gender expression in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen. This paper examines how the author in this text challenges the performances and utterances that have misled the identity of genders in the society in the name of holy insights and ideology. The Writer through the character of Uruvi projects that gender identity is just a masquerade, A-pretence. By taking theoretical ideas on gender proposed by Judith Butler. this paper concludes that characters of Kane’s story do not revolt against patriarchal orthodoxy but show their interest for self-repairment. In this way the paper helps the readers in understanding how minorities of the society, show the contradictory appearances in the role they perform and the psyche they have inside.