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The Cost of Being Complete: Masculinity, Lineage, and Male Trauma in Devdutt Pattanaik’s The Pregnant King.

Author(s) Ms. ARYA M S, Dr. M RICHARD ROBERT RAA
Country India
Abstract Devdutt Pattanaik's The Pregnant King is a radical and unconventional reinterpretation of the theme of masculinity, set within the context of Indian mythology. Through the narrative of “Yuvanashva, the king who becomes pregnant and gives birth,” the novel challenges the interlocked dualities of masculinity, power, and responsibility, which have constructed the notion of masculinity within Indian society. In this paper, “The Pregnant King” is explored as a “trauma narrative,” specifically exploring the notion of masculinity as it is constructed, maintained, and smothered through familial and spatial discourses. Using the frameworks of masculinity studies, trauma theory, and spatial theory, it will be posited that the suffering of “Yuvanashva” is more social and psychological than biologically or mythologically constructed. The demands of lineage script his life, Putra–pitru moksha, and royal duty, reducing his life to the single function of fathering a child. The novel, therefore, reveals how men, too, are forced into their roles no less than women, forbidding emotions and bodily integrity from them. By locating male trauma within mythological space, Pattanaik dismantles dominant narratives of heroic masculinity and makes possible reconsiderations of gender, wholeness, and selfhood beyond patriarchal completion.
Keywords Male trauma, masculinity, spatial theory, mythology, fatherhood, patriarchy
Field Arts
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-03-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.70043
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