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The subaltern stories by Mahasweta Devi, by refusing to conform to the conventions of the Indian literary canon have blatantly exposed the grim realities of the interplay of caste and class in the fabric of Indian society and as Rangrao Bhongle rightly asserts “have projected an unknown facet of social reality in the Indian context.” The paper seeks to study “Draupadi”, a short story by Mahashweta Devi and translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in 1988, which recreates the episode of The Mahabharata in which Draupadi, the wife of the five Pandavas, was asked to be stripped naked but was finally saved by Lord Krishna. Draupadi (Dopdi) Mejhen, the leader of Operation Bakuli in the story is caught by the police and raped by many. While no God comes to save her, she at the end derives strength from her naked body and finally stands as an empowered woman, a “terrifying superobject” (Spivak), in front of Senanayak the man who sanctioned her rape and who stands like an “unarmed target” (Spivak) in a state of paralysis.
Somjeeta Pandey. 2021. \u201cFrom Dopdi to Draupadi, from Oppression to Empowerment: Reading Mahashweta Devi’s Draupadi\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - H: Interdisciplinary GJHSS-H Volume 21 (GJHSS Volume 21 Issue H5): .
Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS
Print ISSN 0975-587X
e-ISSN 2249-460X
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Country: India
Subject: Global Journal of Human-Social Science - H: Interdisciplinary
Authors: Somjeeta Pandey, Bidhu Chand Murmu (PhD/Dr. count: 0)
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Publish Date: 2021 07, Sat
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The subaltern stories by Mahasweta Devi, by refusing to conform to the conventions of the Indian literary canon have blatantly exposed the grim realities of the interplay of caste and class in the fabric of Indian society and as Rangrao Bhongle rightly asserts “have projected an unknown facet of social reality in the Indian context.” The paper seeks to study “Draupadi”, a short story by Mahashweta Devi and translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in 1988, which recreates the episode of The Mahabharata in which Draupadi, the wife of the five Pandavas, was asked to be stripped naked but was finally saved by Lord Krishna. Draupadi (Dopdi) Mejhen, the leader of Operation Bakuli in the story is caught by the police and raped by many. While no God comes to save her, she at the end derives strength from her naked body and finally stands as an empowered woman, a “terrifying superobject” (Spivak), in front of Senanayak the man who sanctioned her rape and who stands like an “unarmed target” (Spivak) in a state of paralysis.
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