Foregrounding Draupadi, the Female Protagonist: Re-envisioning the Mahabharata in The Palace of Illusions
Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana are transmitted orally from one generation to the next. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Palace of Illusion, the retelling of Vyasa’s The Mahabharata has a uniqueness of its own. It takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magica...
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| Main Author: | Payel Ghosh |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sarat Centenary College
2024-01-01
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| Series: | PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/pS9.iPayel.pdf |
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