A Woman’s Scorn is Her Deadliest Wrath: A Comparative Analysis of Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi and The Hunt

Authors

  • Rupali Jain PhD Scholar Department of English, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, U.P., India & Assistant Professor, Department of English, Delhi University, Delhi, India
  • Shipra G. Vashishtha The Department of English, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, U.P., India.

Keywords:

Family Relations, Social Structure, Mythology, Tradition

Abstract

Mahasweta Devi is a well-known name in Bengali Literature, as well as the worldwide New Literature now, contributed to the fame Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has brought through her very authentic translations. Draupadi and The Hunt, two of the short stories Spivak translated, are the primary source of this paper to bring forth the subjugation and marginalisation faced by the tribal women of India in a post-independence India. This paper purports to flesh out the deep resilience developed in the women as a response to the colonial and patriarchal roots of that oppression.

 

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Devi, Mahasweta. “Writing and Sexual Difference.” Critical Inquiry. 8:2 (1981). 381-402. Web. 29 June 2022.

Devi, Mahasweta. The Hunt, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 5:1 (1990). 61-79. Web. 29 June 2022.

De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, New Delhi: Vintage Classics, 2015. Print.

Silva, Neluka. “Narratives of Resistance: Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi.” SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English. 55:1 (2018). 53-66. Web. 29 June 2022.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea. pp. 21–78. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Print.

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2022-01-31

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Rupali Jain, & Shipra G. Vashishtha. (2022). A Woman’s Scorn is Her Deadliest Wrath: A Comparative Analysis of Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi and The Hunt. The Voice of Creative Research, 4(1), 18–21. Retrieved from http://www.thevoiceofcreativeresearch.com/index.php/vcr/article/view/10

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022): January 2022

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