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Feminist Retelling of Ramayana: A Study of Sara Joseph’s Selected Works
This paper focuses on the attempt of reconstructing Rama as a common man and crumbling his iconic figure in Sara Joseph's writings. Rama through out India is regarded as God himself, an avatar of Lord Vishnu. Many versions of Ramayana portrays him as God, while some other versions sees him as t...
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RESEARCH ESSENCE
2014
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| Online adgang: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005917.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper focuses on the attempt of reconstructing Rama as a common man
and crumbling his iconic figure in Sara Joseph's writings. Rama through out India is
regarded as God himself, an avatar of Lord Vishnu. Many versions of Ramayana
portrays him as God, while some other versions sees him as the most noble man in
the world. But Sara Joseph's writings give voice to the other marginalised characters
in Ramayana. The words of these marginalised characters brings to light how the
alteration of Dharma and Adharma takes place when the women characters who
were deprived of justice start composing their own epics. Through her retellings Sara
Joseph has succeeded in bringing out most of the injustices that predominated in the
patriarchal society. In short Valmiki' s icon of Dharma is thus constructed as the
performer of Adharma. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | p.65-71 Vol. 2(2), December 2014 |