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Treatment of Myth in C N Sreekantan Nair’s Kanchana Sita
Indian myths and the epics have been constantly re-created in retellings. Drama is one of the genres of literature which has made profound use of these. C.N. Sreekantan Nair’s Kanchana Sita is a well-known play which is written based on the epic Ramayana. Kanchana Sita earned Sreekantan Nair the Ken...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/006290.pdf |
| Summary: | Indian myths and the epics have been constantly re-created in retellings. Drama is one
of the genres of literature which has made profound use of these. C.N. Sreekantan Nair’s
Kanchana Sita is a well-known play which is written based on the epic Ramayana. Kanchana
Sita earned Sreekantan Nair the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1962. The play
has been later adapted into a film with the same name by G. Aravindan.
The play is the re-interpretation of the Uttara-Kanda, the seventh and last book of
Ramayana. By using this part as the major theme of the play, Sreekantan Nair provides a
strong counterpoint to Rama’s authority by portraying the unhappy incidents such as the
unlawful death of Shambuka and the withdrawal of Sita into the lap of Mother Earth. The
play questions the discrimination of gender and the evil aspect of caste system. This re-telling
version of the epic is significant as it uses the feministic perspective to recount various
incidents in the play. |
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| Physical Description: | Vol. 13:10 October 2013 |