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From Curse to Consciousness: Modernity, Moral Agency, and Identity in Kavita Kane’s Ahalya’s Awakening

Author(s) Ms. S Siva Sankari, Dr. K Prem Kumar
Country India
Abstract Kavita Kane’s Ahalya’s Awakening recasts a classical myth into a quietly insurgent modern narrative. Reading Kane against frameworks of modern identity and feminist subjectivity, this paper argues that Ahalya is not merely rehabilitated through divine intervention but remade as a moral agent whose redemption is interior and self-wrought. Using close, qualitative textual analysis, the paper tracks how shifts in narrative perspective, lexical choices, and syntactic rhythm reallocate moral accountability from the gods to the self. The analysis rests on an integrated theoretical frame: Charles Taylor’s attention to modern identity as reflexive, Stuart Hall’s cultural identity as narrative production, Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler on situated subjectivity and performativity, and Northrop Frye’s mythic structures. Results unfold in three linked readings. First, the narrator’s reorientation dismantles authoritative mythic voice and foregrounds Ahalya’s inward gaze, producing moral reallocation. Second, Kane’s language with measured sentences, domestic detail, strategic pauses that constructs a contemporary interiority that aligns with Taylor’s reflexive self and Butlerian performativity. Third, a thematic arc from shame to reflection and then to self-reclamation reframes penance as ethical labor rather than passive absolution. Together these elements show how Kane forges a modern moral consciousness from mythic material. The study contributes to Kane scholarship by shifting focus from gendered myth retelling to the poetics of modern subject formation, demonstrating that mythic redemption can be conceptualized as an ethical, narrative process of becoming.
Keywords modern identity; moral agency; feminist subjectivity; narrative perspective
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-11-09
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.59912
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