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An Alternative Reading of the Other in The Mahabharata Celebrating the Marginal

200 Pages

by Routledge India

200 Pages

by Routledge India

200 Pages

by Routledge India

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This book studies gender, sexuality, and representation in The Mahabharata. Drawing on Feminist theory, Queer theory and Deconstructivist theory, it revisits the epic as a saga of agency, empowerment, and subversion, and examines how it gives the gendered marginal — the women and the queer — a voice. The authors argue that in a fluid text like The Mahabharata, there is ample scope for... Read more

1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE CROCODILIAN FEMALES OF THE ‘NARI TIRTHA’ 3. RENUKA AND AHALYA WHO LUSTED AFTER OTHER MEN 4. THE WILD WOMEN OF THE MADRAKAS AND THE BALHIKAS 5. ULUPI, THE WARRIOR PRINCESS OF THE NAGAS 6. CHITRANGADA, THE ANDROGYNOUS QUEEN OF MANIPUR 7. HIDIMBA, THE DEMON-BRIDE OF BHIMA 8. YUVANASHWA, THE PREGNANT KING 9. SHIKHANDI, THE TRANSGENDER PRINCE OF PANCHALA 10. YOGINI SULABHA WHO CHALLENGED KING JANAKA 11. VIDULA, THE FIREBRAND QUEEN MOTHER 12. KUNTI: THE MOTHER OF KARNA 13. KRISHNAA’ DRAUPADI: ‘IN HER WILL RISE MANY FEARS!’ 14. CONCLUSION