مورد إلكتروني
Sita’s Story: Intertextuality and Folkloric Allusions in the Creation of a Desi Feminist Discourse in Nandini Sahu’s Sita
| العنوان: | Sita’s Story: Intertextuality and Folkloric Allusions in the Creation of a Desi Feminist Discourse in Nandini Sahu’s Sita |
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| المصدر: | Creative Saplings; Vol. 1 No. 01 (2023): Special Issue, October, Creative Saplings; 12-25; 0974-536X |
| بيانات النشر: | SAFE: (Society For Academic Facilitation and Extension, Regd.), Sai Neeharika, Patiyali Sarai, Badaun 2023-10-22 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Nimeshika Venkatesan |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | The story of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana has over time been subject to several transformations, reinterpretations, and recontextualization. Sita the fiercely dedicated wife of Lord Rama has evolved to become a woman protagonist and, in some cases, even a feminist idol. Although there have been several modern interpretations of the Ramayana, Nandini Sahu’s Sita composed as a poetic memoir running into 25 cantos, in its form, content, and context is situated in a liminal space between the real world and the mythical world. This liminality is otherwise referred to as the “permeable membrane” in the words of A. K Ramanujan provides scope for many voices to emerge; from orality, from marga and desi mediums all of which oscillate between the temporal zones of the past, present, and future, constantly engaging with one another. Furthermore, the figure of Sita and her narratives extend to what Sahu refers to as the “Sitaness” in every woman whose agency has been snatched. For instance, she yokes together women protagonists from the Literary domain such as Desdemona, mythical namely, Trijada, and historical such as Meerabai, Mother Teresa, Kalpna Chawla, and even Nirbhaya respectively to create a uniquely Indian feminist discourse highlighting various instances of injustice meted towards women. Moreover, the poem is crafted using self-reflexive storytelling inspired by oral tradition and folklore. It also implements multilayered intertextual allusions to reimagine Sita as a woman protagonist transcending time and space. Therefore, this paper will investigate the intertextual and folkloric allusions in Nandini Sahu’s Sita consequently exploring the relevance of this composition as a contribution towards the creation of a desi-feminist discourse. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Ramayana, Sita, Intertextuality, Feminist Discourse, folklore, Desi., info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| ملاحظة: | application/pdf English |
| أرقام أخرى: | INCSP oai:putyourOAIhere.com:article/410 10.56062/gtrs.2023.1.01.410 1409053795 |
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