Social Denial of Sexual Violence in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out

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  • Dr. Monika Rao Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70042/eroth/602110

Keywords:

Sexual Violence, Gang rape, Social denial, Brutalization

Abstract

Manjula Padmanabhan’s play Lights Out deals with the stigmas and denial of sexual violence against women. It is based on a real-life incident which took place in a Mumbai suburb in 1982. Padmanabhan portrays a world in which women are deprived of their identity, their own voice, their freedom, and their rights, she has to implore men to hear her concerns, this further leads to gender discrimination in every sphere of life. The main theme of the play is associated with a sensitive issue of ‘gang rape’. A group of urban middle-class people watches the brutalization of a woman in a neighbouring compound but fails to take any meaningful action to stop it. 

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Published

2022-04-01

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Erothanatos

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Social Denial of Sexual Violence in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out. (2022). Erothanatos: A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal on Literature, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.70042/eroth/602110