Masculine Fictions: Memory, Amnesia, and the Iteration of Patriarchy in Namita Gokhale's Shakuntala
This paper conducts a Critical Literary Analysis of Namita Gokhale’s novel, Shakuntala: The Play of Memory, to deconstruct the mechanisms of patriarchal power embedded within the ancient Indian myth of Shakuntala and King Dushyanta. Utilizing Judith Butler’s core concepts of Gender Performativity and Iteration, the stu...