GIRISH KARNAD'S HAYAVADANA AND THE PORTRAYAL OF POST COLONIAL IDENTITY CRISIS

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Abstract

The debates regarding the ?transposed heads? and the subsequent identity crisis in the famous play Hayavadana by Karnad is well known. Some critics trace the roots of the issues to the dominance of Dionysian Ego, bringing in elements of Psycho analysis in to the study. Though the text is often put under the category of Post Colonial in the syllabi of many universities, much was not discussed about the post colonial nature of this identity crisis. This paper attempts to explore how thus identity crisis is in fact Post Colonial.