The Red Turned Black

Authors: V. Madhavi

Country: India

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Abstract: G.P. Deshpande is a renowned Marxist playwright. Deshpande's gender perception is essentially political. He does not view reality either from the modernist perspective of Tendulkar or from the absurdist point of view of Alekar. For him reality is political and it represents a complex interlocking of social, political and cultural forces. All his plays define politics explicitly in terms of the power structures in the society, in terms of class, caste and gender of relations. The view of politics is not from above or outside, but from inside.

Deshpande's A Man in Dark Times (1973) deals with the soul- shattering defeat of Sridhar Viswanath Kulkarni in search of a new horizon despite his struggle through politics and arts to root out the unworthy rule in the society. Through Kulkarni's polemic against the committee during the inquiry it is quite evident that the writer has drawn out the Marxist ideology inherent in his protagonist.

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Paper Id: 230274

Published On: 2013-09-16

Published In: Volume 1, Issue 1, September-October 2013

Cite This: The Red Turned Black - V. Madhavi - IJIRMPS Volume 1, Issue 1, September-October 2013.

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