Subversion of conventional gender role in Krishna Dharabasi's Radha
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2022
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Department of English
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The present research is a study of Krishna Dharabasi’s novel Radha from the perspective of feminism in which eight character, incident and plot are used in feministic way by showing female character’s bravery, courage and seniority while battle. In a male dominated society, females are presented as weak, emotional, submissive and followers of men and men are presented as strong, bold, rational and warrior. But Dharabasi’s novel challenges and subverts those traditional notions and presents female character: Radha, Shushila and other female characters as strong and bold who possess the so-called masculinity to take up challenges.In the same way, I have used gender insights envisioned by Judith Butler, Simon De Beauvoir as theoretical parameters to analyze the primary text. For this purpose, the primary text is interpreted as supporting a feminist reading. The feminist reading and comparative methodology are to analyze problems of this study. The situations of Nepali women have been presented in aconventional way. The culture and values are adopted bymen are indirectly presented as myth. Here, I found character Radha and other female characters are not like mythical rather they are a brave, courageous. They are known as masculinity by their work rather than femininity by their physical body. Therefore, this research seems to be significant for studying past events and their regulations in the society.
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Gender role, Subversion, Convention, Allegory