Transgressing Gender Boundaries: Re-reading Mahesh Dattani’s Plays (Hardbound - 2021)

About Book: Gender Studies is an emerging area of deliberation around the world. It has been at the center of thought since always and all academic disciplines have studied this construct from different perspectives, in order to ascertain its meaning and delineations. The term is loaded with implications and with the passage of time; it has congested itself with a great deal of socio-cultural baggage. The book explores the concept of Gender especially through the prism of Feminist Studies, Masculine Studies and Queer Studies and it carefully examines the transgression of gender boundaries in the selected plays of Mahesh Dattani, a prolific and versatile Indian playwright. His work is now a part of the syllabus of varied universities across India. Mahesh Dattani has significantly established himself as an exceptional playwright in the world of Indian theatre. His contribution has enriched the continuously growing and evolving Indian Writing in English. The text focuses on the exploration of gender as a concept, its construction, presentation, and transgression. It gives a concise overview of the history of Indian Drama in English, its changing scenario, newer themes, and their incorporation. The book will help postgraduate and undergraduate students of various universities appreciate the ever-evolving genre of Indian Writing in English, recognize contemporary areas of deliberation in world theory, understand the role of practice and performance and identify the newer paradigms added to the field of Gender studies in India. The book will prove to be constructive and useful in the area of higher studies and Research.

Dr. Komil Tyagi, M.A., B.Ed, M.Phil, Ph.D. works at Research Centre and Post-Graduate Department of English, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College, Chandigarh since 2008. She has published and presented academic papers in more than 15 international and national peer-reviewed journals, conferences, seminars, and workshops of national and internation.