A Subaltern Retelling of the Epic ‘Ramayana’ through Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished

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Irin Michael

“Perhaps no work of World literature, secular in origin, has ever produced so profound an influence on the life and thought of a people as the Ramayana” (Macdonell, 1916). The legendary, majestic, and grand epic tales such as Ramayana and Mahabharata represent the story being told from either the hero's or the victor's point of view. However, multiple writers have retold and reinterpreted the stories of the vanquished. Asura: Tale of the Vanquished by Anand Neelakantan provides space for the marginalized and oppressed voices of mythology and history by analyzing the much-celebrated villain of Hindu mythology, Ravana, and critically examining how the character of Ravanan and his Asura community were pushed to the margins. This paper will also analyze how Neelakantan’s narrative technique tries to break the grand narrative of the original epic by providing voices to the marginalized and how such a villainous character is represented in mythological dramas, preferably seen as an anti-hero rather than a villain.

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Irin Michael (June-2023). A Subaltern Retelling of the Epic ‘Ramayana’ through Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(6), a795-a810. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2306092.pdf

Volume 8 Issue 6, June-2023

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Research Area: Arts

Country: The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India

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