Phallo centric concerns in the select plays of Vijay Tendulkar

Abstract

Phallocentrism primarily responds to the way a woman is presented in literature by male writers from their viewpoint It stands for a belief that women should have the same right power and opportunity as men have The various roles of women as wife mother housewife and daughter go hand in hand with a division into the public and private domains Drama a performing cooperative and collaborative art is an immediate intense and a communal form of literature and it is enjoyed and evaluated by a group of people who have purposely gathered to watch it newlineVijay Dhondopant Tendulkar the Marathi dramatist is one among the very few newlinecontemporary Indian playwrights who have made a realistic scrutiny of life newlineTendulkars ways of demonstrating how society adds to the deprecation of women as newlinehuman being and deprives them of most of human rights like liberty equality and newlinedignity of the individual His clear understanding of the plight and problems of the other gender has been effectively presented in his plays Hence the researcher has taken into analysis under the title Phallocentric Concerns in the Select Plays of Vijay Tendulkar