Interplay of Love, Sex, and Politics in Asif Currimbhoy’s Play Goa
Keywords:
Goa, Love, Sex, Politics, InvasionAbstract
Asif Currimbhoy (1928-94), an eminent contemporary Indian playwright has written plays on a wide variety of themes. His play Goa weaves themes of love, and sex along with the political theme of invasion of Goa in its texture. The love stories in the play run parallel to the story of Goa in such a way that the two mingle symbiotically. The present paper emphasizes how Currimbhoy has entwined interplay of love, sex, and politics in a single tapestry. It brings to the fore how the playwright draws a parallel between the love stories in the play and the story of invasion of Goa. In this paper the artistic skills of the playwright, who presents his thought by implication, indirection, and innuendo, rather than by direct statement, have been highlighted. Apart from this, Currimbhoy’s stylistic improvisations, allusions, and associations have been discussed with the help of appropriate quotes from the text of the play.
References
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Arthur Miller quoted in Studies in Contemporary Indian English Drama, edited by A.N. Dwivedi. (New Delhi: Kalyani, 1999) p. 32.
Currimbhoy, Asif. “Goa” Asif Currimbhoy’s Plays. (New Delhi: Oxford & IBH, n.d.) p. 25. All the subsequent references for Goa have been taken from the same edition; cited hereafter in the text with the initial letters of the play G and corresponding page number(s) in the parentheses.
Reddy, P. Bayapa. The Plays of Asif Currimbhoy. (Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1985) p. 85.
Meserve, Ruth L. and Walter J. Meserve quoted in A.N. Dwivedi, p. 48.
