When Draupadi says #MeToo: Indian comics reimagining gender justice

Lodhia, Sharmila

doi:10.1080/14680777.2020.1736121

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“…In Sita and Draupadi, feminists have found it feasible to talk about women's being in terms of dignity, rights and equality theorizing the women's position in society as that of "minor," subaltern, and marginalized. Several analyses and interpretations (Chanda-Vaz, 2017;Hess, 1999;Lodhia, 2015Lodhia, , 2021Luthra, 2014;Moodley, 2020;Spivak, 2006) mine the stories as told in the epics to delve in thematics and character vis-àvis gender. A lot of the interpretation of women characters continues to be on the lines of looking at women as using their mind and body as "instruments of challenge and of critiquing the patriarchal, hegemonic system of values" (Jain, 2011, p. 46).…”

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Feminist Literary Criticism Meets Feminist Theology: Yashodhara and the Rise of Hagiographical Fiction in Modern Feminist Re-visioning

Wadhwa

2021

Sage Open

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Feminist re-visioning has led to heterogenous retellings of mythological heroines in fiction. Sita and Draupadi, two of the well-known Indian mythological characters, have been explored in various capacities in mythological fiction. Yashodhara, Buddha’s wife, is a recent addition to this re-visioning project. This article seeks to engage with three retellings of Yashodhara’s story—each of which is radically different from the others. The result is the rise of hagiographical fiction around the character—responsive to the Buddhist ethos of love and spirituality. This article argues that the most intriguing representations of Yashodhara found in this fiction are rooted in the nonoppositional agency given to her character.

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Section: Hagiographical Fiction As a Global South Project Of Feminist Re-visioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Literary Criticism Meets Feminist Theology: Yashodhara and the Rise of Hagiographical Fiction in Modern Feminist Re-visioning

Wadhwa

2021

Sage Open

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“…The rise of feminist re-visioning (Rich, 1972: 18) of the Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, in the space of mytho-fiction (such as Divakaruni, 2008Divakaruni, , 2019, among several others) has prompted feminist critics to engage with the retellings as literary texts and as feminist critiques of Hinduism (Chanda-Vaz, 2017;Erney, 2019;Hess, 1999;Jain, 2011;Lodhia, 2015Lodhia, , 2020Luthra, 2014;Moodley, 2020;Spivak, 2006). This article intends to examine a recent work in the space of Buddhist fiction to locate it at the intersection of religion and gender and examine the hermeneutic of reconstruction at work in the novel.…”

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“…The novel is a rare moment in the experience of feminist aesthetics, its trajectory of self-discovery, a trope associated with feminist writing, is unique, and it starts with questioning the patriarchal mores of the society that the protagonist lives in but ends in an epiphany about self and selflessness. In the novel, Yasodhara starts with anger, resistance and questioning but the novel has her thinking about a different side of resistance -not in the sense generally associated with feminism in the sense of resisting patriarchy but in the sense of seeing resistance as being egoistic and unproductive (Chanda-Vaz, 2017;Erney, 2019;Hess, 1999;Jain, 2011;Lodhia, 2015Lodhia, , 2020Luthra, 2014;Moodley, 2020;Spivak, 2006). The novel thus poses some baffling questions about feminism and its possible engagement with Buddhist thought.…”

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Love as Enlightenment and Enlightenment as Love: Reading Feminist Hermeneutic of Reconstruction in Vanessa R Sasson’s Yasodhara and the Buddha

Wadhwa¹

2023

Feminist Theology

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Exercises in feminist theology outside Western contexts and outside of discourses of theorisation can prove to be enriching to address the disconnection between secular and religious feminisms. One way to address this disconnection is to locate the intersection between secular and religious feminisms in the space of fiction. While mytho-fiction about the Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, has been around for quite some time and has been extensively analysed for its critique of religion and diversity of representation of heroines, the feminist hermeneutic of reconstruction is only now witnessing a resurgence in Buddhism. This article focuses on Buddhist Studies scholar Vanessa R Sasson’s debut novel Yasodhara and the Buddha for its blending of feminist consciousness with the Buddhist ethos of love. It is hoped that this exercise will be found meaningful in understanding women’s experiences of and attitudes towards religion.

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“…One of the works of art that can be a medium or a place for women to protest against the patriarchal system is stand-up comedy (Kathleen Wentrack, 2012;Lodhia, 2021;Nwoke, 2022;Shivaprasad, 2020). Stand-up comedy is a performing arts form in which a single comedian appears in front of an audience with the aim of entertaining and making them laugh through different and amusing segments (Ajay Kumar, Sofiya Khan, & Tanushka Soni, 2023).…”

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Stand Up Comedy as a Communication Media for Women's Resistance to the Patriarchal System (Case Study: Stand-Up Comedy Sakdiyah Maruf)

Khairani,

Alfikri

2023

JIKUHO

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This article discusses the use of stand-up comedy as a medium of communication against women's resistance to the patriarchal system. The case study used is the comic Sakdiyah Maruf, which uses stand-up comedy to voice issues of gender equality and resistance to the patriarchal system. Qualitative research methods were used to gain an in-depth understanding of stand-up comedy as a medium for women's resistance to the patriarchal system. Research data collection techniques were carried out through document analysis. The document being analyzed is a recording of Sakdiyah Maruf's stand-up comedy performance related to the theme of women's resistance to the patriarchal system, which comes from YouTube. The data analysis technique used in this research is Roland Barthes' semiotic analysis technique. The results of the study show that stand-up comedy can be an effective communication medium in the fight for gender equality and resistance to the patriarchal system. The advantages of stand-up comedy as a medium of communication against women's resistance to the patriarchal system, among others, are that it can raise public awareness of issues of gender equality, entertain and educate at the same time, and present a woman's point of view that is different from what is usually seen in the mainstream media. In conclusion, stand-up comedy can be an effective medium of communication against women's resistance to the patriarchal system and has great potential for influencing people's attitudes and behaviors regarding the issue of gender equality.

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When Draupadi says #MeToo: Indian comics reimagining gender justice

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Feminist Literary Criticism Meets Feminist Theology: Yashodhara and the Rise of Hagiographical Fiction in Modern Feminist Re-visioning

Feminist Literary Criticism Meets Feminist Theology: Yashodhara and the Rise of Hagiographical Fiction in Modern Feminist Re-visioning

Love as Enlightenment and Enlightenment as Love: Reading Feminist Hermeneutic of Reconstruction in Vanessa R Sasson’s Yasodhara and the Buddha

Stand Up Comedy as a Communication Media for Women's Resistance to the Patriarchal System (Case Study: Stand-Up Comedy Sakdiyah Maruf)

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