Senanayakwalks out surprised and sees Draupadi, naked, walking toward him in the bright sunlight with her head high.The nervous guards follow behind. Draupadi stands before him, naked. She laughs and says, "The object ofyour search, Dopdi Mejhen you asked them to make me up, don't you...
Subverting the Myth: Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi" as a Critique of Contemporary Socio-Political Issues through the Reinterpretation of Classical Mythology doi:10.53032/tcl.2025.10.1.13Creative LauncherDey, Debashree
Dopadi, in her story, "Draupadi" is a revised and demythicised incarnation of the epical Draupadi, who belongs to the Santhal tribe. In her reincarnation, she is placed within contemporary historical context, where her present status is described to be that of anactivist in the naxalite ...
This paper tries to review and reassess the archetypal representation of the tribal woman in Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi" with special reference to the Ancient Draupadi represented in the great epic Mahabharata. It is an attempt to locate the `Aboriginal woman' question in the context of women'...
(Kenyon 1)Mahasweta Devi‟s story "Draupadi" tells the tory of a NaxaliteSantal tribal woman named Dopdi Mejhen. Dopdi is tortured and raped.The morning after the rape, she refuses to clothe and wash herself. Hernakedness becomes an affront to the masculinity of the attackers:" 'What ...
In Mahasweta's short story "Draupadi"; the title character Draupadi Mejhen or Dopdi, an active worker of the Naxalbari movement is hunted down and raped in a bid to subjugate insurgent groups. This paper's focus is on the strength of women who walked shoulder to shoulder in the ...
In "Draupadi," the low-caste and the female gender act as the weapon for counter-offense and counter-resistance. Spivak's intension is to effect an epistemic transformation of the concept of the monolithic `third-world woman' by drawing attention to the mechanics of investigating the subaltern ...
Mahasweta Devi--Laura Mulvey--DopdiMejhen--Jacques Lacan--Senanayak--Michel Foucault--the ensemble of names does seem a tad bewildering at first glance. Yet, one read of Mahasweta Devi's agitprop of a short story Draupadi would suffice to show how the author ropes in the intricacies of ...
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