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Canonizing the Drapaudis in Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi"
2020
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education
Draupadi, the classical heroine of the Mahabharata, in an unavoidable way, forms the praxis of reference, comparison, and contrast with Mahasweta Devi's tribal heroine Draupadi. As part of the collective mytho-cultural memory, the ancient lady invokes a process of analogy, and "deconstruction," to use Spivak's phrase, as does Mahasweta Devi's Santal Draupadi against the backdrop of the West Bengal government's anti-Naxalite campaigns and military operations in the late 1960s and early 1970s
doi:10.32674/jise.v9i2.2522
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