Revisiting The Mahabharata: Draupadi’s voice in Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions

Revisiting The Mahabharata: Draupadi’s voice in Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions

This paper attempts to read Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Palace of Illusions as a feminist interpretation of the Indian epic The Mahabharata.In the Indian scenario,women have been encouraged to follow the ideal women of the past: Sita, Savitri, Draupadi but their stories are give...

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Main Author: Smriti SINGH
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Casa Cărții de Știință 2015-12-01
Series:Cultural Intertexts
Subjects:
revisionism
postmodernism
resistant text
historiographic metafiction
feminist perspective
Online Access:http://files.cultural-intertexts.webnode.com/200000262-890ac890ae/123-132%20Singh%20-%20Revisiting%20The%20Mahabharata%20%E2%80%93%20Draupadi%E2%80%99s%20voice%20in%20Divakaruni%E2%80%99s%20The%20Palace%20of%20Illusions.pdf

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