SILENT SCREAMING OF A MARGINS SOUL : A STUDY OF MAHASWETA DEVI'S DRAUPADI
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In the stream of marginalization, women are in worse situation. They are marginalized on the basis of unspoken and unwritten laws of the man constructed society. Women’s positions in society, particularly those of marginalized /peripheral one’s are very preoccupied with the sense of docility and negligence. Marginalized woman, the tribe or the poor women, do not have any ‘decent’ or ‘proper’ position and identity in society. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to show how Draupadi, a Santhal tribe woman brutally raped resists, erases the typical silence adopted by many in our country. She prefers the way of resisting instead of remain silent. Draupadi depicts how a marginalized tribal woman derives strength from her body and her inner feminine core to fight against her marginality. In an attempt to subjugate her mind, body and soul, Dopdi is raped repeatedly by a number of men as she loses consciousness time and time again during her ordeal. She displays an unusual form of resistance by subverting the gaze in such a way that it is her oppressors who are made to feel the shame.Keywords: Marginalization, tribal, women, subjugate, position.
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